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Colin Beckingham has a nice piece over at Linux.com which covers installing and using PhpDig on a smallish site. In case you're wondering, PhpDig is a search engine and spider written in PHP (go figure) and it uses a MySQL backend.

I actually considered using this software for loadaverageZero, but I took a different approach when I realized how often and how well Google was indexing my site. To build the search interface for drx, I instead took on the task of using their API, and the much bigger challenge of filtering the results so my markup would remain structured and valid XHTML 1.1 while keeping the presentation layer separate.

Not an easy thing to do, considering the results you get from Google. That is the topic of an article I am way overdue to write. At any rate, if you are interested in setting up a custom spider/search engine for your site, you should find PhpDig excels at small Web site indexing worth a read.