How easy/hard is it to add a text search facility to a website ?

Dave

ooh this would also be handy for me as i run a music review site and could do with a search box for people to look up bands.

Depends where your searchable data is stored. If it's in a database then all you need is something trivial to search that. If it's filesystem based it makes things a bit more complicated, but there is software out there (for free, not-so-free, and commercial) that will do it.

Web site is for my brother-in-laws company. Its got some words and pics, but a big part of it is a web shop build with Act. I guess he could have a search that queries the shop database or the free text, not both at the same time.

Site is http://www.cga-ltd.co.uk

Dave

If all of the content you wish to search is static (i.e. mainly html pages) and you are running on the IIS platform (sometimes good/sometimes bad depending on who or what you believe in) you would be able to use Microsoft Index Server.

You can find out more about Index Server here:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/te...v/IndxServ.asp