Search Engine Woes...
I have a custom designed search engine on my site. It was built using a lot of JavaScript and an offline database powered by some custom designed data management software. Lately, I've come to the realization that the overhead required for this undertaking is a bit more than I can manage. In trying to find an alternative to my own search engine, I've been looking into the feasibility of third-party site search services. By the way, the image for this post is the Internet Explorer mascot, Inori Aizawa . Google: One search service that I looked at was Google. Google has a very good search form that can be easily modified to fit into my existing site with only a few minor changes. My existing search engine has a dedicated search page and the Google service has the same option. When adapting the Google service to my site, I decided to not link to the dedicated search page provided by Google. The Google-provided search page is customizable, but, not to the extent that it will l
