What mySpider Does and Doesn't Do

MySpider is the fastest and easiest way to enable visitors to your web site to find what they're looking for.

Navigation menus are not always helpful. As your site grows, it will be more difficult for visitors to find what they're looking for, and visitors' dependence on your site search tool will also grow.

Many other web site search tools don't work as well for the visitor or site administrator/owner, and are not as easy to set up.

MySpider is a site-specific search engine or web site search tool. That is, it searches and spiders only the web sites you tell it to, which would normally be your organization's web site or web sites. It does not spider or search any other web sites other than the ones you tell it to. It is not an internet-wide site search tool like Google or Yahoo.

The spider executable stores in a database the URL, title and contents of every web page, including PDF files.

First, you create the database and a database table and its appropriate fields as explained in the manual, in the section titled "The DataBase".

Second, install all the mySpider files as explained in the manual, in the section titled "Where the Files Go".

Third, configure manually the "path_info.pl" file, as explained in the manual, in the section titled "The path_info.pl File".

Fourth, configure the two configuration data files manually or using the Admin Tools, as described in the manual in the section titled "Using the Two Admin Tools and Two Configuration Data Files".

Fifth, run the spider tool, as often and when you want, as explained in the manual, in the section titled "How to Spider and Re-spider".

Sixth, integrate the Search feature into your web site's design, as explained in the manual, in the section titled "Integrating the Search Engine into Your Web Site and its Design".

Visitors to your web site can now, using the mySpider web site search tool, request and retrieve from the database the most up to date information in your web site.

All the mySpider files and the database are stored on your server, not on ours.

The spider and search executables are programmed to run only on your domain.



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