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Site Search for Do
It Yourself Web pages
pageBuzz.com provides
full website search capabilities with the sitesearch program.
Search up to 1000 pages on your website just like a google search
of the entire Internet. Let customers find pages with relevant
content quickly the way they are used to finding content online.
This is a trimmed
search with many advanced search features as outlined below:
Search Rules
This search engine helps you find
documents on this website and related sites. Here's how it works:
you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in
keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The search
service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our
index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will
appear at the top of your results.
How To Use:
- Type your keywords in the
search box.
- Press the Search button to
start your search.
Here's an example:
- Type recipe oatmeal raisin
cookies in the search box.
- Press the Search button or
press the Enter key.
- The Results page will show
you numerous pages on the Web about recipes for oatmeal
raisin cookies.
Tip: Don't worry if you find a
large number of results. In fact, use more than a couple of words
when searching. Even though the number of results will be large,
the most relevant content will always appear at the top of the
result pages.
More Basics - An Overview
Here's a quick overview of the
rest of our Basic Help.
What is an 'Index'?
What is a Word?
What is a Phrase?
Simple Tips for More Exact Searches
Fancy Features for Typical Searches
What is an Index?
Webster's dictionary describes an
"index" as a sequential arrangement of material. Our
index is a large, growing, organized collection of Web pages and
discussion group pages from around the world. The 'index' becomes
larger every day as people send us the addresses for new Web
pages. We also have technology that crawls the Web looking for
links to new pages. When you use our search service, you search
the entire collection using keywords or phrases.
What is a Word?
When searching, think of a word as
a combination of letters and numbers. The search service needs to
know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you
want on the Internet. You can separate words using white space
and tabs.
What is a Phrase?
You can link words and numbers
together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to
appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an
exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the
phrase when you enter words in the search box.
Example #1: To find lyrics by the
King, type "you ain't nothing but a hound dog" in the
search box. You can also create phrases using punctuation or
special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas,
slashes, or dots.
Example #2: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999
instead of 1 800 999 9999. The dashes link the numbers together
as a phrase.
Simple Tips for More Exact
Searches
Searches are case insensitive.
Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur"
and uppercase "FUR".
By default, all searches are
accent insensitive as well, but administrators can change this
setting. Accent sensitivity relates to Latin characters like õ.
Including or excluding words:
To make sure that a specific word
is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+)
symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a
specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a
minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.
Example: To find recipes for
cookies with oatmeal but without raisins, try "recipe cookie
+oatmeal -raisin".
Expand your search using
wildcards (*):
By typing an * at the end of a
keyword, you can search for the word with multiple endings.
Example: Try wish*, to find wish,
wishes, wishful, wishbone, and wishy-washy.
Fancy Features for Typical
Searches
You can search more than just text.
Here are all of the other ways you can search on the net:
text:text
Finds pages that contain the specified text in any part of the
page other than an image tag, link, or URL. The search text:cow9
would find all pages with the term cow9 in them.
title:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page
title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The
search title:Elvis would find pages with Elvis in the title.
url:text
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:mysite
to find all pages on all servers that have the word mysite in the
host name, path, or filename - the complete URL, in other words.
The search program has a simple
configuration page that allows you to set text size, the number
of results per page and other basic features. Searches are
limited to html pages only and not the programs, shopping carts
or blogs. Each of the programs has their own search based on the
database formats they use. The simple site search will only
search the pages on a website.Of course if you have 10 pages you
do not need a search. But when the number of pages gets over 100
or so it become imparitive that a search is added if you expect
users to find the content on your website.This program is often
skipped by webmasters who will add a google site search to their
website. However, the google site search will only search
previously indexed pages and in general it will only be about 10%
of an average website's pages.This is a great program and tool
for website owners and webmasters. Just imagine if the Internet
did not have google, bing and yahoo, we would all be lost. Don't
let your visitors get lost on your website.
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