I have a text-based search engine for a site that uses 
Scripting.FileSystemObject. The results show the meta tag description 
below the link to the page.  This is OK but what would be better is if 
instead of the meta tag description I could display the keyword in its 
context on the page, much like Google.  Basically, I just want to yank out 
the keyword and its surrounding text from the text stream in a logical 
context.  Is this even possible with ASP without setting up a database?  
I've searched a lot of the free code sites and couldn't find anything that 
resembles what I want, which leads me to believe it's not possible with 
ASP.  Anyone know?  I don't want to waste a day trying to figure it out if 
someone already knows it's futile.  Thanks in advance.    

T Dean

Did you look into using Index Server?

Provides hit-highlighting, results ranking, word-stemming, boolean search
and plain english search critieria, supports mulitple languages, can index
plain text + MS Office + PDF files, and can return all sorts of results (eg
page title, meta tag information, the first "xx" characters of the page etc)

Cheers
Ken

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From: "Tripp Dean" <tripphcd@p...>
Subject: [asp_web_howto] ASP text-based search engine: is it possible to
have context displayed?


: I have a text-based search engine for a site that uses
: Scripting.FileSystemObject. The results show the meta tag description
: below the link to the page.  This is OK but what would be better is if
: instead of the meta tag description I could display the keyword in its
: context on the page, much like Google.  Basically, I just want to yank out
: the keyword and its surrounding text from the text stream in a logical
: context.  Is this even possible with ASP without setting up a database?
: I've searched a lot of the free code sites and couldn't find anything that
: resembles what I want, which leads me to believe it's not possible with
: ASP.  Anyone know?  I don't want to waste a day trying to figure it out if
: someone already knows it's futile.  Thanks in advance.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thanks, Ken.

I'm trying to modify a search engine so that it can be used in demos to
prospective clients.  Do you know if hosts with IIS 4 or 5 typically agree
to set up Index Server for a client site?

By hit-highlighting or word-stemming do you mean displaying keywords in page
context?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Schaefer" <ken@a...>
To: "ASP Web HowTo" <asp_web_howto@p...>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:59 AM
Subject: [asp_web_howto] Re: ASP text-based search engine: is it possible to
have context displayed?


> Did you look into using Index Server?
>
> Provides hit-highlighting, results ranking, word-stemming, boolean search
> and plain english search critieria, supports mulitple languages, can index
> plain text + MS Office + PDF files, and can return all sorts of results
(eg
> page title, meta tag information, the first "xx" characters of the page
etc)
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> From: "Tripp Dean" <tripphcd@p...>
> Subject: [asp_web_howto] ASP text-based search engine: is it possible to
> have context displayed?
>
>
> : I have a text-based search engine for a site that uses
> : Scripting.FileSystemObject. The results show the meta tag description
> : below the link to the page.  This is OK but what would be better is if
> : instead of the meta tag description I could display the keyword in its
> : context on the page, much like Google.  Basically, I just want to yank
out
> : the keyword and its surrounding text from the text stream in a logical
> : context.  Is this even possible with ASP without setting up a database?
> : I've searched a lot of the free code sites and couldn't find anything
that
> : resembles what I want, which leads me to believe it's not possible with
> : ASP.  Anyone know?  I don't want to waste a day trying to figure it out
if
> : someone already knows it's futile.  Thanks in advance.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: "TRIPP C DEAN" <tripphcd@p...>
Subject: [asp_web_howto] Re: ASP text-based search engine: is it possible to
have context displayed?


: I'm trying to modify a search engine so that it can be used in demos to
: prospective clients.  Do you know if hosts with IIS 4 or 5 typically agree
: to set up Index Server for a client site?

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Don't know - you'll have to ask them...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: By hit-highlighting or word-stemming do you mean displaying keywords in
page
: context?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hit Highlighting means that, in the returned results, you can gave the
search criteria highlighted. (Goto google.com and do a search, then look at
google's cached copy - search criteria words are highlighted).

Word Stemming means that the search engine is congnizant of some grammatical
rules, so a search for "swim instructor" would also find pages that
contained "swimming instructor" (for example).

Cheers
Ken