How to make my website searchable

Another question from the old email grab bag…

"how to make my website searchable?"

Good question!

I’m a big fan of the Google CSE for basic sites and even some moderately advanced ones…  It’s not complicated to use and it lets you build a search engine that only searches your website and even collect money if someone clicks on an ad.

Truth is, it seems Google has perfected the art of finding things based on phrases, similar words and popularity even within a single site and you’ll see by many government websites that it’s almost never a good idea to try and build your own search engine from scratch or rely on basic text searches which may bring up very relavent and extremely old documents! … And that sucks!

Google won’t do that to you.

Until next time,
Daniel J Deyette