Place a search engine within the website
A1 Website Search Engine is a specialized utility tool developed by Microsys. It allows you to provide a web search engine for your site visitors, which considers both the content and internal linking in the website. Having this will increase conversions and website functionality that can be vital especially if you're selling goods or services on the site.
A1 Website Search Engine offers a free mode but its capabilities are limited. Subscribing to its trial and the paid version will allow you to fully use its service. The developer is also well-known for producing A1 Website Analyzer and Website Download.
How to setup
The first thing you need to make sure of is to have the crawler engine in the utility's software scan in order to index the entire website and start building the site search solution. Afterward, you will need to select the search index and search code solution you prefer to make. One option is to create a JavaScript frontend with all data embedded.
This certain JavaScript code is ideal for websites that contain 100 to 1,000 pages. Depending on settings, the searching can be instantaneous with no possibility of page reloading. Although, it provides optional deferred loading of the JavaScript search index data file until the user actually starts searching. Moreover, it works fine even on offline media including browsing websites on CDs and USB sticks.
On the other hand, JavaScript frontend and PHP/data-file backend are best for websites with less than 10,000 pages. Here, searching is faster with only a minimum of data transferred and offers no full-page reloading. This specifically works on old server and PHP installations. Both of these options support GET parameters. The last step is to FTP upload all the files that consist of search engine index and code.
Enjoy functional site search solution
For web developers, A1 Website Search Engine will be a great tool to utilize if you want to serve an efficient search solution for your website visitors. It is powerful as it considers both the content and internal linking so, the searching range is guaranteed to be wide. You can select the search index and code solution you prefer depending on the type of website you are running.
