Adding an easy-to-use search engine to your site is a simple way of making your content more reader-friendly. With search engines, news sites save readers time by providing them a way to find the information they need in a snap. InfiNet offers the most popular Web site search engines: crawlers and directory indexers.

A crawler starts at a given URL and then follows all hyperlinks it comes across within the domain it is searching. A directory indexer starts at a given directory and then indexes all files and subdirectories within the given directory.

Each InfiNet-supplied search engine generates ordered, user-defined, HTML-based result pages, and they support both keyword and Boolean searches.


Crawler: ht://Dig
  • Complete indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet
  • Can easily span several Web servers
  • Search results are ordered with the most relevant matches first
  • Search results can be returned in short or long formats
Directory Indexer: SWISH
  • Not as bulky as other indexers, uses very little disk space
  • Designed specifically for Web sites
  • Has ability to ignore data tags and give higher relevance to information in header and title tags
  • Searches for words that exist in HTML titles, comments, and emphasized tags
  • Titles are extracted from HTML tags and appear in search results
Directory Indexer: Verity
  • Directories are indexed into searchable databases called collections
  • User can pick which collection to search from a drop-down list


Make your site more valuable to users by enabling them to find content quickly and easily.


Choose from both crawlers and directory indexers.