I work as a luthier at a guitar company, and we've spent over a decade digitizing spec sheets for every guitar we've built. Right now, these spec sheets are stored as PDFs in Google Drive. We often receive inquiries from folks who bought our guitars second-hand and want to know the specifics about their instruments. Instead of searching for these details ourselves and sending them out, we want to set up a section on our website where users can enter their guitar's serial number to access and download the relevant spec sheet directly. Is this feasible, and what's the simplest way to implement such a feature?
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One approach you might consider is hosting all your spec sheets publicly and then submitting their URLs to Google Search Console. This way, you could leverage Google's search capabilities. You could set up a search form on your site that’s limited to your domain, which should help in returning accurate results for most queries. Just make sure your file names are descriptive, ideally including the product name or reference.
The issue with Squarespace is that its search functionality is limited to the site's content and won't index the Google Drive link directly. It seems we're stuck having to find a workaround since all the files are on Google Drive.