Charles,
Thank you for your message of 25 Aug 99 at 15:06 about Re: Remote
host web search systems.
> Do you have many many pages to justify a search engine? I know it is nice to
> have one but is it really necessary?
We have around 750 pages, and it is growing every month. I think that
is enough to justify a site search system.
> The most annoying result is to get no hits at all for
> what to me appears to be "a standard query".
Agreed.
> Could your problem be solved with two super-duper indexes. One would be a
> list of more or less everything on your site (site map if you like)
We have this, listing areas of the site, not individual pages.
> the other more of a subject index.
I feel that it would be essential to use software to construct the
index, and that having done so, using software to search it and
present results seems a logical step.
Thank you for your suggestions.
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