If I wanted to create a search engine site for my local area, what's the best way to get this done? Are there any free CMS's or tools that can do it? I originally wanted to use Swicki, but they got rid of Adsense integration, and you can't add or modify the way that the search results page looks...so, I'm kind of out of ideas now.
thanks for that - I've actually never seen this before...looks pretty decent...hopefully it can be monetized somehow. EDIT: no, it can't back to the drawing board...if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
I should be more clear, I'm looking to create an actual search engine (like a Google clone), not add search functionality to a website.
Take a look at Hadoop - its written in JAVA and could be what you're looking for. You can seed it with urls from you're local area are it will index them. Its probably the best open source script out there for search engines.
try www.netspys.com its independent search engine...itu modification of spinder.eu..... i will develop it...and i will share for free forever...... PM if you interest