What search software do you use on your site?

[Broncos]

I'm looking to add a site search (mainly for my own internal quality control) and have looked at a variety of search programs on Hotscripts and Freshmeat and have found nothing that has really stood out yet.

I'm looking for a solid search that will allow me to index the site and just do some basic key word searches. What do you recommend?

[Raz Meister]

http://www.htdig.org/

[mafo0]

http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/

The free version is good, and you get an unlimited trial of the paid version. They also have an auto-install. Give them your ftp username and password, tell them were to connect to, and you can instantly install it on your website.

[Stryker]

I use the freebie service from www.atomz.com and cannot fault it. All they ask in return is for you to display a small logo on each query/results page. They manage the whole thing so there is no hassle involved and no upgrades to do.

[Chris Stewart]

I can't believe nobody has said Google...

[DarkDelight.net]

I'm designing my entire site around vB so it uses a hacked version of vB's search.

[rylin]

I can't believe nobody has said Google...

Amen.
If you need something spidered properly, there's google.

\o/ for google!

[Broncos]

Google for your own site solely? I have not seen this option on thier site? Can you provide a link?

[DarkDelight.net]

Google for your own site solely? I have not seen this option on thier site? Can you provide a link?

http://www.google.com/services/websearch.html

[assassingod]

If I had a site I would intergrate it with vB's search engine.

[Broncos]

Thanks a lot

[DarkDelight.net]

Thanks a lot

Don't forget Google's TOS for the free version.

There is far to much legalese to post here but the main drawbacks are:

They will serve ads.
You must not frame their results within your own site.

[Broncos]

Actually this is for internal use only (me). I'm just doing some searches throughout my site for quality control purposes.

[0ptima]

I like the xav.com search engine.