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Linux.com: PhpDig Excels at Small Web Site Indexing

“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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