Cross-campus searching

[Sika Berger]

Web4Lib'ers,

I am looking for free (or at the least low-maintenance) search engines
that can be easily configured to search multiple domains.   There are
two or three questions here, please offer any tidbit of info. you may
have...

Our campus is part of a five college consortium, and we'd like to set up
a "search our site" feature that looks across all the libraries'
websites, perhaps also presenting options to restrict to all the
libraries' "policies" or "research" sub-directories.  

The Google University search is appealing for one campus.  Does anyone
know of plans to allow multiple domain searching in the near future?  
I've sent them a question and received no reply.   Their University
Search FAQ says:
15. How many domains can I search over? 
         Universities can search over one domain at a time. At this
point in time, you can not search over multiple domains at the same
time. 

Google's Free Site Search FAQ says:

6. How many domains can I search over? 
         You can give your users the option of searching over many
different domains.
Each of these options will appear below the search box after the option
to search the Internet. In order to list all of these domains, you need
to separate domains with a semi-colon. 

If anyone can offer experience or insight, I'd appreciate hearing from
you.

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Finally, any experience with Alkaline?  I've searched their online
support postings and found some encouraging comments.
http://alkaline.vestris.com/

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Thanks!

Sika Berger
Web Coordinating Committee Chair
Smith College Libraries
Northampton, MA   01063
sberger at smith.edu



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