Dennis –
Unless I’m reading something wrong,
I think the solution is to use Google.
73, Brian, N5ZGT
From: Dennis Bodson
[mailto:bodsond@att.net]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005
3:47 PM
To: arrl-odv
Cc: 'Bloom, Jon, KE3Z'
Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:13036] Web
Search Update and Plan
Harold:
Why do we want to reinvent the wheel. Why
not use the GOOGLE search engine? What does it cost? Why not go to a possible
permanent solution rather than continue to add improvements which may be far
inferior to the GOOGLE engine?
Dennis
From: Kramer,
Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005
10:40 AM
To: arrl-odv
Cc: Bloom, Jon, KE3Z
Subject: [arrl-odv:13036] Web
Search Update and Plan
To: ODV
At the July Board meeting, the Board requested some
better options for the search functions on the ARRL Web Site. Jon Bloom,
Hugh Brower and Tom Hogerty have recommended the option outlined below which we
plan to implement by mid-November.
Here is the Executive Summary of that report along with the complete
document from Jon and his staff.
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
Providing a robust search capability on a corporate website is a major
undertaking, according to several major research organizations. ARRL has
in the past used a number of free ‘shareware’ search tools to provide
search capabilities on ARRLWeb. As presently configured these are not
well suited to such a large site as ARRL’s (11,000+ documents, one
million hits per day).
Sites with a large number of content pages typically require
specialized search tools from commercial vendors. Vendor solutions come
as either software which runs on a customer’s servers, or as an
all-in-one hardware + software package. Because of the overhead that a
search engine requires, we recommend that the search function be separated from
the physical ARRLWeb server.
ARRL Web/Software Development Department has identified the Google Mini
“appliance” as the best overall solution to the limitations of the
current search tool. Sold by Google, the most popular search engine on
the Internet, the Mini will allow the ARRL site to be indexed and searchable in
the same manner as the current Google.com site searches the entire Internet.
The cost of this appliance is $3,000 to purchase and it will require
external web hosting at an approximate cost of $100 per month.
We will implement this solution with a target completion date of
November 11, 2005.
The attached document describes the background and analysis that led us
to this conclusion.
Harold Kramer, WJ1B
Chief Operating Officer
ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio
860 594 0220