GUIDE TO SEARCH ENGINES

Wes Sonnenreich, Tim Macinta

• Your company network has grown too big for manual searches, and you need to install a reliable, high-performance search engine, ASAP

• You're a Webmaster who wants to set up a search engine which will ensure that only the information you choose will be indexed, while helping to increase your users' chances of finding the results they're looking for.

• Your livelihood depends on your being able to quickly zero in on specific types of information online, and you know there's got to be a more efficient search strategy than the one you're using.

The Web Developer.com Guide to Search Engines is a complete guide to choosing, obtaining, installing, configuring, supporting, and building the perfect search engine for your Web site, intranet, enterprise network, or Internet needs. Wes Sonnenreich and Tim Macinta critically appraise the leading search engines, explaining who built them, how they work, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. And they tell you everything you need to know in order to:

• Determine your ideal search parameters and create a profile of your site
• Match your site profile with the best engine for the job
• Obtain, install, configure, maintain, and get help for each engine
• Build your own custom search engine, from scratch

• A sample chapter from the book
• A demo version of a commercial search engine
• An on-going collaborative search engine project
• Links to all of the engines covered in the book
• Updates about the current state of search engine systems
• Code for all the examples in the book
• corrections and revisions to the text