"MyOwnSearch"
(Uses PHP4, MySQL)



MyOwnSearch is a complete search engine system designed in PHP4, for use with MySQL. In short, this search engine script automatically builds it's own database using Meta results from DMOZ, and has an intelligent text-based keyword advertising system.

Some key features of this script are:
* Searches from a local MySQL database
* Searches Google, DMOZ, Altavista, AskJeeves, MSN, SearchFeed and RevenuePilot and delivers the results on your site with your design.
* Each meta engine can be enabled/disabled, and the order in which they are used can be specified.
* Each meta engine can be separately set to automatically add entries to the local database.
* Entries in the database can be automatically purged (removed) after being in the database for xx days (specified in the config file.)
* If no results are found in your database, the script will automatically search and display "meta" results. (Can be disabled).
* Meta results returned that are not already in your database will automatically be entered. This can be disabled for each engine.
* Password-protected administration page allows you to search in Title, URL, Description or Keywords for specific text, to delete individual entries, or delete by specific text (use this carefully!) From here you can also add/edit/delete keyword advertisements, and set up the meta search engines.
* One "Main Page Content" file gives you the ability to add content to the main page of each engine by editing one file.
* Uses very minimal MySQL space. 100,000 records uses approximately 20 megs of disk space.

Pay-Per-Click Search Engines were added!
To further your ability to profit from running your own search engine, you can sign up for SearchFeed and RevenuePilot to earn money from the search results! This was a highly-requested feature, and a very nice feature at that! PPC search results are grabbed via XML feeds, and are displayed seamlessly with other meta search results.

Purge Database Entries
This was another requested feature, and also a good suggestion, and was thus added. In an effort to keep the database current, each time a search is performed, a database "sweep" is done to clear out entries older than xx days. The number of days is specified by $purgedays in the config file. By default it's set for 60 days.

Instructions for installation and configuration are included (in simple terms) in a text file in the zip. A separate head and foot file can be added to add the template of your website to the main and results pages of the search engine. Creating the MySQL databases for MyOwnSearch can be done automatically through an included script. A complete list of variables in config.php, and their explanations, can be found in config_variables.html in the zip file.