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Croco Dylan 
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 Topic: Search Box needed for own sight
Posted: 22 August 2003 at 2:09am |
Search Box needed for own sight. Meant to search only own web sight, based on keywords/description/date (meta tags).
So that should do for the mouse-over tooltip. Probably lots of scripts available? but who knows where? Who can help me with this?
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b_bonnett
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Posted: 22 August 2003 at 4:41am |
Not too sure exactly what you want, but is the site search engine on this site (in the ASP section) what you need?
Blair
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Croco Dylan
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Posted: 22 August 2003 at 6:43am |
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Yup, that's it
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hpnadig
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Posted: 23 August 2003 at 3:08pm |
Use the google API to have a google search for your site
See..
Add Google Search to Your Site
Create a GoogleBox ASP.NET user control that can add pizzazz to any site.
by Boris Feldman
http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_08/magazine/columns/aspnet/
or else,
You can make use of some service provider like...
http://www.bravenet.com/
which give you search withn page functionality wth no bit of coding on your part...
Edited by hpnadig
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Croco Dylan
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Posted: 23 August 2003 at 3:16pm |
Have found several 'external' search boxes. Free code to place someone else's search box on my page. Meaning you can search the entire web using Google, Hotbot or 'whatever' and display the search results within your own page.
What I want is a search box which can do the same search (search meta tags such as desription, keywords, etcetera) but just for my own websight (everything under http://www.croco.nl/) not an internet wide search.
Have found some freeware boxes, but these require a banner on my websight or can only search a limited amount of pages.
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b_bonnett
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Posted: 23 August 2003 at 6:02pm |
 Croco Dylan wrote:
Have found some freeware boxes, but these require a banner on my websight or can only search a limited amount of pages. |
Well, you'll be lucky to find a free one which doesn't require some sort of link back or have a restriction of some kind, so your options are probably limited to using one of these or writing your own. If you look at the Web Wiz Guide site search, there is a function there to get the meta tags which you could possibly modify to get it working how you like.
Blair
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Croco Dylan
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Posted: 23 August 2003 at 6:45pm |
Would be a lot easier if I had a budget, or some form of income (from the sight) to spend on (a.o.) some of this stuff. Have no objections to linking to other sights or such, not at all. If someone helps me, there should be something in return. Credit's due where ... and all that.
And free software (or services) can sure make life a lot easier, but just want a completely banner free sight for a change. Seems to me a search bot is pretty generic code, only the starting url of where to search or in which file (txt, database) to search for certain strings is diff'rent.
Had just hoped someone else had invented this wheel, 'cause I'm just plain lazy. Up until now unfortunately, although I'll keep on dreaming ;-)
Unfortunately
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Croco Dylan
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Posted: 23 August 2003 at 7:31pm |
b_bonnett wrote:
If you look at the Web Wiz Guide site search, there is a function there to get the meta tags which you could possibly modify to get it working how you like.
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Tried it just now, demo looks nice but won't work with current provider. Too bad.
Fallback solution is to have a 'sight map/complete index' for each major section of my sight. Even less computer-gifted persons nowadays can find the Ctrl+F.
Still, search box is nicer ....
As to
hpnadig wrote:
Add Google Search to Your Site
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and of course blair's comments on this
A search page with all external search boxes could be considered as an extra. What I'm wondering is how this will affect your ratings, if any ;-) with the search engines. Ho much will i.e. Google put me higher up on the list, if I have a search box to them?
Any thoughts?
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Search Box needed for own sight