Make it Searchable - Free Scripts
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Putting search on your Web pages is no easy feat. Like everything else on your site, adding search means adding code, scripts the Internet can read and then turn into an easy-to-use search bar. Many, many companies offer scripts as part of paid packages. These are often designed for commercial sites with business interests. In most cases, it’s just as easy (and much cheaper) to take advantage of free scripts and programs on the Web.
Using a search engine, it’s easy to find several sites offering free scripts. With most sites, it’s as easy as providing the Web address to your pages to receive the feature you desire. If you have a site, you can achieve search for your traffic. These sites are among the many companies which provide online search service:
DigitalPoint
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/search/
DigitalPoint lets anyone take advantage of a free script which can be placed on existing Web pages. You provide the information and addresses to receive your script.
FreeFind
http://www.freefind.com/
FreeFind is highly popular among site creators and very commonly used to improve page navigation. Sign up using the online form, and your site becomes searchable in minutes.
Perlfect
http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/
Perlfect offers a free Perl script to create your search bar when you sign up. Perl script is slightly different from the more commonly seen Java, but you don’t have to understand the language to take advantage of this easy-to-use free script.
Javascript Kit
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/multi_site_search.shtml
Don’t feel like signing up or letting another company decide where your search bar should go and what it should look like? Use the Javascript Kit -- an easy-to-use, cut and paste piece of JavaScript code you can place right on the main page of your site, or anywhere else you’d like to include search.
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