Best way to add search function to a website?

veryfunnybones

Any suggestions for a script? As usual for my requests, it should be free and easy to use with minimal coding skills. I've seen a few out there but have no way to evaluate if they would be good. It's a for a smallish site....less than 20 pages but it's for an author and there's lots of text and information, so I thought for students and others doing research it would be handy to be able to search the site. I don't really like what Google has to offer mainly because you have to leave the site and end up at Google with ads and stuff.

thanks,
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zippie

just give people instructions on how to use advanced search in google

chris

google site search? $100/year for a 20 page site.

chris

you could try something like http://www.sitelevel.com/index.shtml which would be free for that amount of pages :)

veryfunnybones

Thanks chris, that (sitelevel) looks ok but I don't like the idea of having their ads displayed on the results page.

chris

i guess you could move the current site into some sort of database, and do it that way... build the site using a cms, wordpress or whatever, but these both mean far more work.

veryfunnybones

chris said..... build the site using a cms, wordpress or whatever, but these both mean far more work.

cough... choke...yeah, waaay too much work for this purpose.
I guess I thought there might be a small script out there which would build it's own small database just for this function. Or maybe I don't understand how the whole thing works.

chris

there probably is, to be honest.

chris

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

chris

• Standard edition - Free, ads are required on results pages.
- Do not show ads on results pages (for non-profits, universities, and government agencies only).

• Business edition - Starts at $100 per year, no ads on results pages.

veryfunnybones

It's not non-profit.... so too bad about that.

But I found sphider

and the search engine project

I think both are open source