WordPress Search

[Charlie Morris]

I think you can safely assume it'll be <$2,000/yr
https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/72334?hl=en

Especially if all you're using it for is site search.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Stacey L Knight Davis <slknight at eiu.edu>
wrote:

>  You can turn off the ads in the free version if you click that you are a
> non-profit.
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> Stacey Knight-Davis
> Head of Library Technology Services
> Health Science Librarians of Illinois Past President, 2014-2015
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> Booth Library
> Eastern Illinois University                 Office Phone: 217-581-7549
> Charleston, IL  61920                       Library Technology Services:
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> http://works.bepress.com/stacey_knight-davis/
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] *On
> Behalf Of *Pruntel,Alison
> *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2015 9:29 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* [WEB4LIB] WordPress Search
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> *Apologies in advance - this request has been posted to several library
> lists*
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> Hello all - We are using WordPress as our CMS for our library website (
> fauquierlibrary.org). We have had some feedback that the "search this
> website" doesn't always return expected results. Thus we are looking into
> some of the other plugins available.
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> The Google Custom Search works well, but unless we want to show ads, we
> are going to have to pay for it. At this point, I don't have the data to
> estimate the number of queries per year to figure out what level to
> purchase for the ad-free experience (our old Cold Fusion site did not
> include a search function).
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> My questions are:
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> (1) If you use either version of Google Custom Search (ad or ad-free), how
> were you able to estimate your queries?
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> (2) If you are using a different plugin (Relevanssi, etc.) are you using
> the base/free version or fee-based? Are you happy with it (pros/cons)?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> *Alison Pruntel*
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> Fauquier County Public Library
> 11 Winchester Street
> Warrenton, VA 20186
> 540-422-8515
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> http://fauquierlibrary.org
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