[Jayj]

I need some help creating a new search engine for my companies intranet. Currently when we try to search through our knowledge we base, the current search engine searches through all words of every article. So then end result returns articles that are not revelant to the topic that was being searched. I would like to create/implement a search engine that searches articles headline or what have you so it will return the proper search results.

I would like to do this by creating my own or whatever. I cannot spend any money on a new search engine. Any suggestions/help from anyone would be very appreciated.

 

[Teck]

Search engines take years and millions of dollars to develop a unique engine.

Or you can use google adsense and use there free search engine.

 

[knight_47]

If you want something really really specific, for example, if someone types in "Pictures", it would take him to www.yoursite.com/pictures you can write a PHP script. But this is probably a long and very painstaking way to create a search engine.

But hey it works, and it's easy. Just takes a long time. But since you have a business it's probably not what you want, but if it is, let me know and I can help you.

 

[Eriksrocks]

There are premade PHP engines that can be implemented and can index your entire intranet. Honeslty I forget the name of what I am thinking of but if you search you should find some.

 

[ferrija1]

Search engines take years and millions of dollars to develop a unique engine.

Or you can use google adsense and use there free search engine.

They don't take millions of dollars and years to develop!

knight, that sounds like a keyword kind-of thing.......

I would just use Google to search your site as it has very good algorithms and all that stuff.

 

[Eriksrocks]

I would just use Google to search your site as it has very good algorithms and all that stuff.

But if it's on a private company intranet it's not indexed by Google.

 

[ferrija1]

But if it's on a private company intranet it's not indexed by Google.

Ok.

 

[Jayj]

Knight47 & Eriksrocks

You guys are right on the money. Let me be more specific, I do not own my own company. i am just trying to improve on the search engine my employer is currently using. I work in a help desk/support and our knowledge base/intranet search engine is what I' am trying to improve. I did search for php engines and found some free ones but I did not know which would work the best. I do not know much about how the indexing works etc. But what I do know is that the current search engine my employer is using...sucks. For example, if someone is looking for articles related to Blackberry trouble shooting the search engines returns some blackberry and some unrelated articles as well. My employer does not want to spend money on a new search engine so I thought I would take it upon my self to implement a new one. So if any help you guys could provide to me would be greatly appreciated. I need guidance on which way to go free php etc. Also how to implement into my companies intranet etc. There is no time frame, my employer is not aware of this project so I have all the time in the world.

 

[knight_47]

can you give us the link to the current search engine so we can see how it works?

 

[Jayj]

This search engine is located on the company intranet. I do not think you would be able to access the url. If I copied the source, would that be sufficient.

 

[WAJ0606]

Did you ever have any luck JayJ? I'm looking for something too.