[WEB4LIB] Search functions

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

Like Lee Jaffee (".... freefind.com...sites and not only do they do a free
search service but they can also generated a site...") I have successfully
used a free search engine on a personal Web site/Archive of about 50Mgs of
about 100 pages.
It is Pico Search (see http://www.picosearch.com/rates.html ) and doesn't
generate any ads. It does require a small image link to their site.
If you want to see it in action, you can visit
http://www.ulink.net/plum/Roswell/LizMythology
One caveat for a dynamic site: I do have visit the picosearch.com site to
reindex whenever I add a new page.


--Nancy Bohm
  Reference Librarian
  (847) 735-5057
  Donnelley Library
  Lake Forest College
  Lake Forest, Illinois

on 3/20/02 2:40 PM, Nancy  Eaton at neaton at duluth.lib.mn.us wrote:

> We are interested in having a search-this-site function on our site. Our ISP
> can do this for us - for a price, of course. I know that there are some other
> alternatives out there - picosearch and atomz are the ones that I've seen
> recently. I'm interested in opinions  about which direction we should go: hire
> this out locally, or go with either a paid or a free service from the
> Internet. The site is currently about 400 pages. This is also being considered
> for the City's web site (the library is a City department), and I need to
> present some information about alternatives to the City web committee next
> week. Thanks for your help.
> 
> Nancy Eaton
> Duluth Public Library
> Duluth, MN
> www.duluth.lib.mn.us
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