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D.Tate
D.Tate

Reputation: 2309

Add search feature to simple website without mySQL database

I have a simple HTML site with 100+ pages or so. I want to add a search bar at the top so the user can search the site. I know about Google Custom Search, but it shows ads unless you pay at least $100. Obviously I'd like ad-less search on my site for free if at all possible!

I've also heard about Lucene/Solr, but they do not actually crawl the site. For that I would apparently need Nutch.

Anyway, the site I have runs on a Microsoft IIS6 server, but I have basically no knowledge as to how Solr, Nutch, etc. gets "installed" on the server.

Also: I'd like to point out that I do have a local copy of the site. Perhaps I can do one big initial nutch "crawl" locally that will create an .xml for Solr?? That would help me get "up and running", but probably wouldn't be a good long-term solution.

..so should I just use Google Custom Search? or is there a not-extremely-painful-to-implement alternative? The brain hurts folks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3867

Answers (2)

James Hawkins
James Hawkins

Reputation: 218

Here is an easy way that works pretty well, although you may be looking for something more than this.

http://sitecomber.com/getsitecomber/

You can create code to paste into your site in about 2 minutes. It doesn't get easier than that. Search is powered by Google, but results are isolated to your website.

EDIT: This no longer works.

Upvotes: 1

Seybsen
Seybsen

Reputation: 15587

You did not mention how many search requests you want to handle but if you use the json-rest-api of google's custom search you have 100 searchqueries a day for free and you can display them without any ads on your page.

An simple example request can be found here.

Upvotes: 1

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