That's an idea. I could create several generic non-branded templates that customers could modify to fit the look and feel of their own sites, and limit access to my scripts with @referer entries. The only down side I see to this would be that visitors to the other sites could still open the search frame in a new browser window and learn the soruce of the search. Good for me, not so good for them. The other problem I face is, if I limit access to licensees web sites using @referer, what then of the sites now using my free search box model?

What I originally had in mind was creating a way searches could be conducted from an outside domain with results returned to and displayed from that domain without a way to trace the origin of the actual search engine and license their access to my database. My concept was to create generic search forms and results pages to be hosted at the clients domain, maybe incorporating search results as a SSI, but even still the source code would have to reveal the location of the scripts.

I'm not a programmer. Is my original concept doable? If not, frames might very well be the answer, if I can figure out how not to limit access from web sites now using the free model, now numbering in the dozens and growing daily.

Thanks for your input.


Mark Brasche
http://SurfSafely.com/