Dreamweaver - Google search engine for offline web page

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Google search engine for offline web page

GladLock96

2005-09-14, 7:24 pm

I'm creating a website that is going to be delivered to an offline computer and
I want the user to be able to search the site. Anybody recommend a good search
engine like Google or yahoo that allow people to run search queries even though
the computer is not connected to the net? Ideally Google would be the search
engine I would prefer but I don?t know of any products they make that would
index just the site without special hardware or being online.

brendon

2005-09-14, 7:30 pm

GladLock96 wrote:

> I'm creating a website that is going to be delivered to an offline
> computer and
> I want the user to be able to search the site. Anybody recommend a good
> search engine like Google or yahoo that allow people to run search queries
> even though the computer is not connected to the net? Ideally Google would
> be the search engine I would prefer but I don?t know of any products they
> make that would index just the site without special hardware or being
> online.

I recall a long time ago, there is such a product, that will run in the
background, but you will need some sort of serverside code to run it, asp I
think from memory. It does not require a server to be installed, but will
need the code in asp, and a database such as MSSQL or similar. Let me know
if you can't find it - try google for 'static website search cd rom' or
similar - as I was looking into it for a client cdrom project.

Good luck
Brendon

zarathustra_MX

2005-09-14, 7:30 pm

ZoomSearch is great. There's even a dreamweaver extension for it. Plus it needs no server side setup if you run it in javascript mode, which is fine for a smallish site.

GladLock96

2005-09-14, 7:30 pm

Yeah, Zoom Search is what i'm currently using at the moment, though the site is
growing at such a fast pace that we've outgrown that search engine. It really
can't handle the amount of pages we have to be indexed. If you know of any
other static search engines like zoom let me know. Thanks again.