looking for feedback re: search engine for uncompiled HTML help

[CRoeder -at- Primavera -dot- com]

For those who are also HATT members, please excuse this cross-posting.
I received only one reply, suggesting FAR, and our team would like to find
out what other tools the community might be using.

The original HATT post.....
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
 We use Dreamweaver to develop HTML Help files for one of our Web apps.     
 For several years, we have been using Deva Search, but recently have       
 been asked to look into a more "robust" alternative. We have received      
 some feedback that the results relevancy/list order is less than           
 ideal. Of course, we realize that this depends on the nature of the        
 search criteria as well as how Deva works. A bit of research on search     
 engines indicates that there is much variance in how search engines        
 rank results. We aren't sure exactly how Deva weights results, but         
 number of occurrences of a term within a file seems to be important.       
                                                                            
 I garnered a few suggestions on search engines from a list member          
 privately (thanks!) but would be interested to find out how others are     
 providing Search for uncompiled HTML Help.                                 
                                                                            
 TIA,                                                                       
 Catherine Roeder                                                           
                                                                            
                                                                            


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