creating a search engine

I am trying to create a search engine that will search only the pages in my site. I do not want to use FrontPage. Do you have any tips on how I should begin developing this??? Thanks in advance!

You can either use a server-side scripting language, perl, cgi, among others, but it will take some form of processing search requests.

You might want to look into PHP or Perl, depending on what you know about programming. You might also can find something already built to your needs on the web at places like hotscripts.com.

Indeed. I have been tasked with replacing the dysfunctional (or is that "non-functioning") FrontPage search engine. I have chosen perl as my implement of destruction and completed work on a module that allows you to easily pass out queries to it for parsing. That is, you set your rules, then you send the query to the module, and voila, you get back a parsed query that tells you what terms go with AND or NOT or a phrase, etc (it's still your job to provide the logic to actually APPLY the parsed query to your databse, however). If you choose perl and want to use the module, by all means post here and I'll put it up for you.

Err. hate to be picky, but CGI is not a scripting language Onslaught m'friend

True, but most people associate any other language that parses/executes content for the web as cgi, when in reality it could be bash, C, C++, etc, but I really didn't want to get into it that much.