Review: WebDeveloper.com Guide to Search Engines
Web Marketing Today, Issue 47, August 1, 1998
WebDeveloper.com Guide to Search EnginesSubtitle: A comprehensive guide to choosing, installing, and configuring the best search engine for your site
by Web Sonnenreich and Tim Macinta
John Wiley & Sons, January 1998, 441 pages, softcover
Business websites have a way of growing, and many will need a site search engine before too long. This technical book will help your Webmaster select a search engine. The authors review in some depth search engines from AltaVista, Excite, Harvest, ht://Dig, Phantom, and Ultraseek, with detailed information on configuring each.
Webmasters will find it an excellent resource. The book isn't very useful, however, for companies that are outsourcing their Web hosting, since they usually don't have the control over their server necessary to implement the more complex search engines.
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