How can I have a search feature that only applies to articles on the site

[Damion]

I would like to have this type of search feature for a site i am working on.

-A search box with autocomplete <-- Optional but would be nice

-When doing a search only results from articles will be shown, other website content must be excluded

-Results will show a small 3 line excerpt and the titel of the article
-Ability to set the look and feel of the result display, Title color/font/size
-Keywords being used have to be bolded

-Results will be displayed on a new page with a 10 displayed results maximum

What is the most cost effective way to achieve this?
Aren't there any free scripts available for this?

I guess a PHP&MySQL solution would be the best approach to store the articles for search and PHP to display the results.

I'm sure a solution can be found for this

 

[bagby]

Google has a vast search syntax, and from what I know can deal with your problem without modification.

Read this http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/operators.html and I'm sure you can work it out.

I have seen a lot of sites with searches "powered by Google" in this way - presumably because it's effective and easy to use.