Web site searching has always been an integral part of the user's web experience (read: Search and You May Find). I can help you set up a site-wide search engine, and improve your rankings in web search engines (such as Google).

Site-wide search engines

Using ht://Dig and/or a set of customized scripts, I have installed a number of site-wide search engines. Features include: customized results pages, searching within specific "zones" on the site and multilingual searching. Clients include:

Sigma

Sub-contract issued through Arthur Cormack

Foreign Policy Dialogue

Bilingual French/English installation. Sub-contract issued through by design/e-lab

eCommons/Agora Digital Democracy in Canada

Bilingual French/English installation.

Fulfilling the Promise Database, Maytree Foundation

Custom scripting in PHP and MySQL.

If you prefer to install your own site-wide search engine you may be interested in reading: Multilingual Searching. This article is specific to installing and configuring ht://Dig.

Search Engine Ranking

Using cruft-free, standards-based markup you can improve your rankings in major search engines. Not only will a code sweep improve your search engine ranking, it will also reduce the size of your pages making them load faster for your visitors. For more information on using web standards to your advantage, please email.