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Originally Posted by Jeff Sundin
Thank you!
How about setting up a data base for searching the site? These folks have a green house and offer lots of varieties of plants etc....They want the customers to be able to use the web site in the store to check for a variety that might be good in shade, or attracts butterflies etc...
I've looked at a few similar sites that have added the google search bar and I don't get very many matches when I try using them. Does the google search perform better within the site if the descriptions and images are carefully matched?
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Jeff, I had the same problem and was told to try Google, MSN and the others as embeded search to the site.
If you are planning on running a search from a SQL server or any database server don't include the Google or MSN searches it will distract from your clients website.
Are you a good db programmer? (ASP SQL)
Because you posted this in the Database forum I'm guessing you know db's.
I have allot of resources for ASP SQL but know enough to be really dangerous with others.
What a search should search; Products, Blogs, Forums, Txt, Docs, Page Content, etc.
Output should be grouped based on your sites priorities. I group in order of Products, Reviews, Articles, Content, then it fills the blogs, forums at the end.
The page content is the tuff if you don't use dynamic content but you can program a crawler to index and save to a table your data to search later.