[WEB4LIB] Good search engines functionnalities for relevant
and quick search results
Avi Rappoport
avirr at LanMinds.Com
Thu Mar 29 17:02:30 EST 2001
A lot depends on your specific needs, the size of your site, the
kinds of pages and more. For example, a Belgian site search engine
should support French, Dutch, and German, including extended
characters such as umlauts, accents and carets. If you buy a
package, you will also want to find a company that accepts your
institutional payment forms and provides local technical support in
your time zone.
A remote search service might be the easiest and cheapest solution.
However, if it's located in France, I would be concerned about using
a remote search service in the US, because of the distance that the
queries would have to travel. Two search services with data centers
in Europe are MondoSearch and SearchEngine.com -- you may want to try
those out. If you choose a search engine, take a look at Alkaline,
Extense, Aurweb, DioWeb, and Albert.
All of these are listed on the SearchTools.com site,
<http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools.html>.
I hope that helps,
Avi
At 11:22 PM -0800 3/28/01, Stéphane Dudart wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>We would like to place a search engine on our website. This one has a lot of
>html files and it grows day by
>day. We are currently establish a keyword and description metadata system to
>the site to control
>searching.
>What functionnalities search engines must have for a quick search and a
>relevant result?
>We also look for case studies and local search engine lists.
--
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Guide to Site, Intranet, and Portal Search Engines:
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