• Hosted service option

• Robot crawls the site and indexes data

• Search form calls remote server

• Results point back to site

• Advantages

  • No CGI or server access required

  • Browser administration provided

  • Minimal installation and maintenance work

  • Less server load, no disk space required

  • No up-front investment

• Disadvantages

  • Can't index intranets

  • Less flexibility and control

  • Limits on index updating

  • Fewer report options

  • Fewer search and results features

  • Less customization

  • Continuing charges (or advertising)

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