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I’m working on a project that is importing a bunch of data from external sources and stores them in tables on the same database as my Multi-Site Expression Engine 1.6.8 installation.  The import tables are used for a number of things, so I can’t pull that data directly into the EE, but I am pulling it into my page templates by way of a plugin.  So far, so good.

Obviously, EE’s standard search can only see data in its own tables.  Does anyone know of a good way to extend the EE search to also search the tables where my plugin is pulling in data?  I found Solspace’s Super Search, and although it looks slick it doesn’t seem to support searching external sources.  Is there a way of doing this short of buying a Google appliance or installing Solr?

Thanks,
Chad—

Maybe this is obvious, but I use google custom search to set up something of this nature…..I have not delved deeply into it’s functions as far as narrowing the content it searches, but check it out.