Best way to add full web search to my site? Best way to add full web search to my site? ruby ruby

Best way to add full web search to my site?


Check out Lucene. It's an open source search engine that will certainly be a fun learning experience to implement on your own site. It was originally designed by the Excite folks, I do believe.


Ferret is the Ruby port of Lucene. Check out the acts_as_ferret plugin.


Depends what you mean by full web search really. If you want to search the whole web then the answers above wont help you much as they are really for indexing and searching the content of your site. I would suggest using the Google ajax search (just a 'powered by google' needed, no ads) or Boss from yahoo (might require ads not sure).

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/