A friend and myself are trying to build a GB website, but we don't know how to make a search engine. Can anybody help?

Check www.wsabstract.com and www.thefreesite.com you should find links to places that offer free ones and ones already made in javascript there.

Thanks!

Search engines are complicated. It all depends on what kind of site you are making. For a complicated site like this one, the search engine took over 14,000 lines of code to write. I'm working on a revision that will be easier to use and more full of features which will probably run around 20,000 lines. You also need to have database and data mining experience to produce a really “true” search engine that indexes itself everything (Like GBN).

Gee, I never thought if it as that way…
Thanks for replying anyway.

I was not trying to sound sarcastic.
It sometimes happens with the way I type.

This is the kind of a question coming from the webmaster in me,ut are you using a free server or pay server? Also Chad neglected to say that to get a search engine to actually work besides having database creation knowledge you need a paid server installed with ASP, MYSQL, or any other database language installed. Although I have seen them on a few free servers like Brinkster, and I believe also that it is on Topcities. Although these servers do have the right technology installed I do not know if they are “up” all the time, but who knows. If you don't have the money for a pay server use one of the free sites listed above with the database creation technology.

CaptainN

Another option is to use a search indexing service. Proton Charging uses
Atomz.com and I've been pretty happy with it.

Basically, you sign up, drop a search form on your page, and then Atomz will periodically index your site (you can tell it how often you want it to). People searching for stuff on your site are actually querying Atomz, not your server, so it's not a bandwidth hog.

If you don't know much about HTML, they have premade results formats and if you do know HTML, you can arrange the results anyway you want (it'll take a bit of poking around to get familiar with their special tags). I just recently set the template for PC to look like the rest of PC. It's a little funky in places and I haven't had time to sort it out, but at least it looks like it belongs.

And it's free, which is nice.

I agree with what castewar said, get a free service like Atomz.. or I believe Google also does that..

For the search engine on the GBPA, I haven't quite decided what I am going to do.. but I'm sure I will make it query the DBs and return back results.. nothing too spectacular..