Gigablast Site Search

Site Search

Let your users search your website. Gigablast site search allows you to do just that. It can search just the web pages from your own sites or from any sites that you select. Even get back the search results in XML so you can customize their apperance.

You now have two options. You can search for your pages that are in the main web index or you can search for your pages that are in the site search index. The main web index is Gigablast's general purpose index and probably already has some, but not all, of the pages from your site. Alternatively, if you use the site search index, you can add your root url via the site search addurl page and it, and the pages it links to either directly or indirectly, will immediately be indexed at the rate of about one page every five seconds. Use the robots.txt file to prohibit certain pages from being indexed.

Copy and paste the following html code into your web page to display your site search box:


<form method=get action="http://sitesearch.gigablast.com/search">
<input type=hidden name=sc value=0>
<input type=hidden name=sites value="www.mydomain.com">
<input type=hidden name=iu value="http://www.mydomain.com/logo.gif">
<input type=hidden name=iw value=200>
<input type=hidden name=ih value=50>
<input type=hidden name=ix value="http://www.mylink.com/">
<input type=text name=q size=40>
<input type=submit value=search border=0>
</form>

To optionally search the main web index instead of the site search index replace sitesearch.gigablast.com above with www.gigablast.com.
Replace www.mydomain.com above with your site name, or a space separated list of up to 200 of the sites you want to search. Sites need not be only domains, but can contain file paths as well.
Replace www.mydomain.com/logo.gif above with the url of your logo.
Replace 200 and 50 with the width and height of your logo in pixels.
Replace www.mylink.com above with the url to visit when your logo is clicked.
If you are searching a long list of sites you may need to replace method=get above with method=post since some browsers can not submit long get requests.
By having this search box on a page it will also receive a Gigaboost.
Gigablast has a limitation of around 100,000 pages per site for most sites.
If you are using the site search index, then be sure to add your root url(s) via the site search addurl page. If your root url page uses frames and does not have any outgoing hyperlinks then you will need to add some other pages in order to spider your site. Wait a few minutes for Gigablast to download your pages so your search box actually has something to search.
Pages are reindexed weekly, but will be reindexed every hour if the content changes that often.

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