We don't have the technology resources to develop our own search engine for our Web site. What...

Search engines are complicated for a novice to develop and set up. Luckily, there are solutions available to help small business owners add search functionality to their sites. There are several options

For the faint of heart, the easiest thing to do is to use Google's free SiteSearch. By cutting and pasting some HTML code, you can add Google-powered search to your site in seconds. You can even customize the search results to incorporate your site's look and feel.

The only stipulation when using SiteSearch is that Google has to have crawled all the pages on your site for the search to be truly effective. In fact, if you've just launched your site, you may want to wait for Google to crawl your site before adding SiteSearch. You can check which pages Google has crawled on your site by typing "site:www.yourdomain.com" into the search box.