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Linux.com: PhpDig Excels at Small Web Site Indexing

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 9, 2005

“Webmasters looking to provide search capabilities for their
site would do well to try out PhpDig, a Web spider and search
engine written in PHP with a MySQL backend. There are other open
source search engines, all of which have their own advantages.
PhpDig just happens to suit the needs of my Information Technology
for Greenhouses and Horticulture site. Here’s how I got it
working.

“Webmasters with small sites know the problem of providing
useful site search capabilities. Typically, visitors enter keywords
in a search box and the search engine returns a ranked list of
pages related to the query. This is a useful service–provided the
visitor can tune the search and the results returned are reliable
and relevant…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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