What is a Site Search Engine?

Anyone who has surfed the internet has probably used a search engine. Engines like Yahoo!, Google, Alta Vista, and Lycos help you find what you're looking for, simply by typing in a few keywords.

Many sites have their own search engine. When you search using these site search engines, the results are all from that site. For large websites - those with hundreds, or even thousands of pages - a site search capability is almost a necessity. However, administering a site search engine can be a daunting challenge.

The alternative -- A Remote Search Service

A remote search service gives your site local search capability without the messy complications. No software to buy, nothing to install, and no learning curve.
It does this by maintaining all the ingredients on a remote server. Search button HTML code links your page to the remote search engine. Searches are performed remotely with the results displayed in your browser.

Getting started

IndexMySite make the process very easy. Here's all you have to do.

Ü Register for an account at IndexMySite. Its easy. An account gives you a password and instant access to all of the powerful features of the IndexMySite service. Ü Create a search index for your site. Simply provide the URL of your Home Page. Don't worry if your site is complicated. You'll find that IndexMySite indexing options can handle almost anything. Ü Add the simple search button code to your page. Its a few lines of HTML that will add power and usability to your site. Ü Customize the results page. You can match the search results page to the style of your site with IndexMySite's user-friendly StyleMaker program.

How it works

When you submit your Site for indexing, our spider will "crawl" your site, traversing each and every link. Each page is "read" and a "search index" is created. This index is stored on our servers. The HTML code you insert into your page produces a search button and a query text box. It also contains a link back to our search engine. When a search is requested, our computers search your index and a results page is created. This page is returned to the searcher's browser. Everything happens here. You see the results there.

That's it! So what are you waiting for?