[Web4lib] Google Search Application

[Steve Oberg]

While in my previous job at Taylor University (www.taylor.edu), GSA
was purchased and installed for searching across all
publicly-accessible webpages managed by Taylor.  My staff had been
using an open source indexing/search app called Perlfect to provide
library webspace-specific searching but we decided to switch to using
Google given users' familiarity with Google.  Prior to this we had
developed our own content management system based on PHP and MS
SQLServer which made most of the libraries' (there were two separate
library web spaces, one for each campus library) pages
database-driven.  GSA handled this situation with no problem.  I'm not
sure if/whether this is the same thing as the query feature you
mention.  We developed our own electronic resource management system,
too (also built with PHP and MS SQLServer), but didn't attempt to tie
that into GSA, at least, not before I left Taylor.

The GSA search box is viewable at
http://www2.taylor.edu/library/upland/index.php?page_id=150.

Steve

On 2/20/06, Lynn Eades <beades at med.unc.edu> wrote:
> Our university recently purchased a Google Search Application Server.
> They already index our web site and we are thinking of putting a search
> box on our site for this.  We would also like to use the query feature
> of the GSA to search our database of electronic subscription resources.
>
> I am wondering if anyone else uses the GSA either through their
> university/college or on their own.  Have you had problems?  Did you
> implement the query feature and was it successful?
>
> I will be happy to summarize for this list any responses I receive.
> Thank you!
>
> Lynn
>
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> Applications Development Services Department
> Health Sciences Library
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> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> Chapel Hill, NC  27599-7585
>
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> Email: beades at med.unc.edu
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