Free internal and external search engine

INTERNAL SEARCH ENGINES

These are free and easy to add to your site - just fill in a form and they email you the html.

atomz

• Free up to 500 pages - just show Atomz.com logo
• You control look and feel - choose template or design it yourself
• They give you search reports
• You control search result page ranking
• No advertising
• Scheduled or on-demand re-indexing

freefind

• Free
• Reports track visitors' searches
• Automatic site map
• Automatic what's new list
• Complete customization
• Scheduled re-indexing.

whatuseek

• Free
• Fully customizable
• Index on demand
• Enhanced customization of search results
• Easy-to-use indexing and relevancy ranking tools
• Useful statistics
• Free support

beeseen's mysearch (thanks, Joe)

• Free - up to 5000 pages - but search result pages show ads
• Spider revisits and checks for updates
• Customize your own search results pages colors

picosearch

• Free up to 1500 pages - but Picosearch logo appears on your site
• Supports frames
• Extensive control of layout design
• Control of search result page ranking

searchbutton

• free up to 1000 pages - with advertising
• detailed search result reports and summaries

siteminer

• free up to 1000 pages - with advertising
• Detailed search activity reports

These internal search engines are free but more complicated -- not for beginners! They may require a lot of disk space and call for specific hardware/software requirements. These have more sophisticated search capabilities and are geared to large, complex commercial sites.

mondosearch
webinator
excite.com for web servers
htdig

EXTERNAL SEARCH ENGINES

These are FREE but search result pages have advertising. They are easy to add to your site - you fill in a form and they email you the html or in some cases you copy it off their site.

google
seeko
smartlinks (thanks, Joe)