Re: Re: Templated Web Sites and Search Engines

So we meet again :)

Anywho, what if I have a template driven website where those templates can take on a few million or so different permutations. For example, a well used message board.

I have designed atleast one website that had a search functionality for one type of content and another for the message board. Depending on your index this could take a few days to index.

Are there any search engines that all you to macro in how to find the data and how to write the url for it?

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Re: Re: Re: Templated Web Sites and Search Engines by btrott (Parson) on May 01, 2001 at 23:06 UTC
For this type of need you may have the best luck rolling your own engine, probably using something like Search::InvertedIndex. This allows you the maximum in flexibility--you can customize exactly what gets indexed, ie. just the content and title of the message board posts--and flexibility (presumably) in the URLs associated with each of the index entries.	[reply]