Web site & worldwide search engines

[Martin Gelbaum]

Wed, 8 Nov 95 17:53:50 PST

Perhaps the following is of interest:

We use the Glimpse software from http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu
to index the HTML files at our site on Solaris 2.4.  

We're using version 2.0; will update to version 3.0 in the near future!

Please see http://www.lbl.gov/Glimpse/search-all.html

This has worked very well here; we also create search databases for 
a variety of subsets via a Makefile, as in, for example,
http://www.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/Glimpse/make_gl_form.cgi?Archive
This searches our archive of science articles,
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive-dir.html

The search forms for subsidiary search databases are
created on the fly by a Perl script.

Have also customized Glimpse user-interface forms, including adding 
some "sugar", which may well be included in better ways 
in Glimpse version 3.0, to deal more simply with booleans, etc.

See http://www.lbl.gov/Glimpse/Search-Help.html

Have also included in http://www.lbl.gov/Glimpse/search-all.html
a simplified interface to the CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Engine)
from http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/public/cusi/doc/about.html

You'll notice I subsumed the top search engines and indices,
including the newcomers, Inktomi, and Excite, in one menu.

I felt this interface is most effective for our users: it gets
right to the heart of the matter, and the whole search
page is much smaller.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Martin Gelbaum
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing Services
e-mail: MGelbaum at lbl.gov
Phone:  +1-510-486-4749
Fax:    +1-510-486-5548

P.S. Have also done some work with the Harvest software
and plan to do more in the future.