Remote Site Search Services Reports

MiniSearch (SpaceSurfer)

MiniSearch from SpaceSurfer will crawl your site and store your info in a remote database. When someone enters a query in the search form on your site, the MiniSearch server application receives the query, formats the results, and sends them back in an HTML form with links directly to the pages on your site.

Service Information

Platforms: all Internet-accessible web servers

Price: free with advertising banners

Special Features

• Easy administration
• handles robots directives correctly
• Very nice indexing report

Articles and Reviews

• SearchTools Review of Remote Search Services September 27, 1999 (updated October 2, 2000) by Avi Rappoport
  Thorough discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using remote search services, how well their indexing robots handle standards and links, search and relevance ranking features, search features, results customization, maintenance and reporting.

Examples

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