# Where can I get a cheap ranked search script for a website?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 13, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-a-cheap-ranked-search-script-for-a-website/321490 "2005-09-13T21:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-a-cheap-ranked-search-script-for-a-website/321490/1 "2005-09-13T21:16:53Z")

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I would like to be able to have a search box on a website. I’d rather not do google’s branded search–I don’t want ANY other company’s branding. I have Matt’s Script Archive simplesearch script running, but it returns tons of inappropriate hits. I want a search that has some sort of “best results” ranking ability based on frequency of the word occuring or whatever.

I can set up and (slightly) modify simple perl, php and asp scripts, but would rather not mess around too much with databases. The site is small so a spider-based search would probably work.

Does anyone know of a search I can get that will work for me? Less, than, say, $100?

Thanks!