Re: Looking for an application to work with Centos

John Plemons <john@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:42:39 -0500

Frank thank you for the feedback...  I understand that there will not
be a real time Spidering and update of Google, that's fine, once the
150,000 part numbers are Spidered once, then that is 1/2 the work
done.  The other side, that I want to be some what real time, is a
onsite search feature so that real customers can see true, or close to
true information...

What some people do, is build a pade with every part number know to man
on it, just a basic stream of text on a page, one after an other, after
several tens if not hundreds of pages they have the information on the
web.  In that manner, they then can be Spidered by the search engines. 
These companies don't have the product, but they do get requests for
the product and then they go out into the world to fine it, they are
known as brokers.  The other side of the coin is what we do, we hold
inventory on at least 150,000 different part numbers, in a mix of
quantities amounting to millions of pieces of inventory on hand.

I have this inventory in a Firebird DB, I'd like to find a way of
dumping this information into a program that will create pages on our
website, or at least create a catalog on our website that can be
spidered by the various search engines.  My first thought was a basic
Shopping Cart, I use one now on our surplus electronics and consumer
website..  Some basic information on the part, entered in plain text,
and the cart uses its PHP scripting to generate a page, these pages are
captured by the search engine spiders, driving people to our website. 
It is called SquirrelCart, but it has more bells an whistles than is
needed for this project, if a person gets to our site, I just want them
to be able to see if we have the item in stock and show them a
quantity, if we do, then give them a phone number to yalk with my sales
department, or a web form to let them contact us...  KISS, I want to
keep it simple...

John

http://www.mavin.com

Frank Cox wrote:

  On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:28:50 -0500
John Plemons <john@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Thanks for the feedback, but not exactly what I have in mind, the 
inventory is fluid and quantity changes are updated daily.  My goal 
would be a real time link to a secondary DB which has a update push from 
the primary DB, the primary is a Firebird DB under Windows 2003 server..

I don't think you're going to get the results that you think you're going to
get, assuming that by "search engines" you mean Google, MSN and the like.  Your
site may or many not be spidered by the search engines on a daily, weekly or
monthly basis.  "Google works in mysterious ways."

I get the impression that you want someone who searches one of the search
engines for Widget No. 12345 to be sent to your site if you happen to have
Widget No. 12345 in stock today.  You're planning to use Google as your database
frontend and salesman, in other words.  Nothing wrong with that in theory, I
suppose, but I really don't think you're going to be able to keep an
up-to-the-minute inventory on Google unless you pay them for the service in
some way.

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