Re: Need advice on search engine

hazly wrote:

I'm very new in the web technology and need advice on search engine. I
want to develop a portal using PHP and MySQL on Linux. Need to know on
the following features :
1. search engine that could search my portal (mySQL, PDF, Ms Word &
others)
2. search engine that could search to few web sites specified by
user/programmer

Hi,

If you want to know about searchengines, this is the wrong group.

This used to be a good site:
http://searchenginewatch.com/
but I haven't checked it for a long time. It looks like a badly designed
advertisement now to me... But check it out yourself.

If you want searchengines to index your site, just submit them to the
engines. All major engines have a form where you can submit your site.

One tip:
If you are starting to build now, pay attention to navigation with URL's
like:
http://www.example.com/somepage?nav=shop

The latter part ?nav=shop is often ignored by searchengines.
If possible make that into: somepage/nav/shop
or something similar that looks like a path.
You'll need apache's mod_rewrite to help you with that.

If you try to take that into account from scratch, it saves you a headache
later.

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller
.

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