But we like our own database servers and searches, don't we? And we
have a perfectly good search system in place (it's only turned off...
something related to b0rk3d hardware. =/) Why pay even more for
external searches when we can have our own?
----- Original Message -----
From: Catherine Munro <artslave(a)usa.net>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 14:19:55 -0700
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Atomz Search?
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
I posted this today on the External Search Engines page
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_search_engines),
thought it might be worthwhile to cc it here:
Has anyone explored the Atomz Search application for use on
Wikipedia? (see
http://www.atomz.com/applications/search/ and also
their FAQ
http://www.atomz.com/applications/search/faq.htm
).
I use the free Express version for my personal site, and it works very
well, is extraordinarily customizable, easy to integrate into a site,
and you control ''when'' content is indexed. I've seen it on many
other pro sites as well.
It's a pay service for sites with more than 500 pages (heh), and of
course there's no pricing on their website -- it's ye olde "contact
our sales staff" routine. It may be too pricey for a site as large
and index-intensive as this one, but it should at least be worth
exploring..... especially since the search application in hosted on
'''''their''''' servers, not ours. And who knows,
they may be willing
to negotiate a deal with a site as prominent as ours is becoming.
Perhaps Jimbo or someone else with an idea of how much we would be
willing to spend to have a reliable internal search mechanism could
contact them...?
CatherineMunro
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