Updated 21 April 2003

The site search will find keywords on all (any) SkiptonWeb pages. If you are just looking for a business, you could try our local directory search, that will throw out more specific results.

Yes, we switched over to Google's free site search service. Not too pretty, but it's very very fast, and does what it says on the tin. And we don't have to worry about re-indexing, or server drain. Comments?

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2002

This stuff below is only here for historical interest...

Ok, here's how this works. The search box on the main home page of SkiptonWeb is powered by Atomz. It's a free service, we've being using it for about three years now, and it's brilliant. Can't fault it.

Atomz crawls our site once a week. It follows all the links. It indexes all the words. You can type a keyword into the search box and Atomz will tell you which pages that keyword appears on.

But. Atomz is only free for sites with less than 500 pages. Or rather, Atomz is free, no matter how big your site is, but Atomz stops indexing keywords after the 500th page. It kind of just gives up, goes and puts the kettle on, puts it's feet up, has a fag and forgets about all the other pages.

So. Since SkiptonWeb is now well over 500 pages in size, the point is this: Atomz search will not show up everything in the site.

If you are looking for a shop, church, club, service, company, whetever, you might want to try searching in the local directory, which is a separate database, and contains about 600 fully searchable entries, along with phone number, address, weblink, email, etc.

The Photo gallery also has a separate, fully searchable database.

We're looking into either paying Atomz for the full global search facility, or writing our own from scratch. As always, it's a matter of time and money allowing. I'll say this one more time: Anyone want to contribute?