idea behind implementing search facility

[crescent_au@yahoo.com]

Hi all,

I am building a website for an employer. They want to have a search
utility in it. I don't need a very complicated search utility.
Something simple which just searches through contents and products.
What's the idea behind it? I am thinking of putting everything in
database- all the contents that is. This makes it easy to search
through the fields in the database. Is this the correct way? Is there a
better way that you know of? Please point me in the right direction.

Cheers!

[cewyattjr@gmail.com]

Re: idea behind implementing search facility


crescent_au@yah oo.com wrote:

Hi all,
>
I am building a website for an employer. They want to have a search
utility in it. I don't need a very complicated search utility.
Something simple which just searches through contents and products.
What's the idea behind it? I am thinking of putting everything in
database- all the contents that is. This makes it easy to search
through the fields in the database. Is this the correct way? Is there a
better way that you know of? Please point me in the right direction.
>
Cheers!

If it is a public web site, I would just consider using Google.

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

They've got some nice API's. If you can get the Ajax one to be a site
search, then you've really got something.