ODPac is a search script which will allow your visitors to search the internet without ever leaving your site. This can greatly increase the stickiness of your website and aid in generating additional page views and possibly increasing ad revenue. It could also lead to greater amounts of return or repeat traffic. ODPac uses the XML object which should already be installed on most hosts. Installation is fast and painless.
Once a site starts growing a search facility is a necessity. There are a number of third party search engines that can be installed in your site, but for many purposes the Index Server that comes with IIS is more than adequate
Every once in a while I come across the task of displaying a large number of records in ASP pages. The good example is displaying the results of a search. Most of the time I do not know the number of records that I have to display in advance.
Web spiders are probably one of the most useful tools ever developed for the internet. After all, with millions of separate and different sites out there today, how else can you gather all that information?
As a web site grows, finding content on the site becomes increasingly difficult. To combat the difficulty of finding relevant information on a large site, many developers turn to writing a search engine for their site. This article discusses how to implement such a system using Active Server Pages and SQL Server.
If you want to let visitors to your site find content quickly, you should seriously considering giving them some sort of "search" functionality. If you're running IIS 4.0, you can use Index Server to make that a pretty simple job.
Everybody wants a search engine so here you go. If you enter no criteria, all results are displayed. You can enter keywords separated by spaces or by commas. You can also choose the fields to be searched and the type of search. Updated on May 2, 2001 and is now a vbscript class (big surprise there) and uses a new table structure.
Setting up a site search function is one of the most vital ingredients of a well rounded, usable web site. Enabling your visitors to find the information they are looking for quickly and easily increases site usage, page views and session times.
