Extending Portal Search

I am looking to extending the Portal search facilities to allow for searching of our own bespoke content which is accessible from custom urls such as http://server:port/pls/portal/custompkg.disp_our_content?id=123
I had a brainwave that by adding a URL item when our content was added then the Intermedia search would index this content automatically. Unfortunately the lack of content area APIs to add an item has foiled my plan.
Has anyone got a way of either getting intermedia to index these urls where I can do this programatically? ie by adding to the already generated Portal index??
Thanks & Regards
Jenny

Jennifer
I would suggest that your first solution would be the way to approach the problem. The URL content that gets indexed comes from the URLs in the Portal URL table, but these are only meaningful as search results if they are associated with an item, i.e. a URL item.
What Portal version are you using? It may be possible to find more information on the situation with the content are APIs for you.
The alternative solution might be to use Ultra Search. This is an Internet Search solution and comes as part of iAS. This could be used index you URLs. It offers some Portlet based search UI so that you can search and see the results in the Portal.

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