[WEB4LIB] Cross-campus searching

[HUNT_STEVE]

You might consider HTDig, http://www.htdig.org/ which is free (GPL) and easy to set up. I use it to index several different websites on our campus (http://library.smc.edu/search.html )

from their website:
"The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Google and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site.
As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can easily span several web servers. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand common protocols like HTTP."

Steve Hunt
Santa Monica College Library
Ph. 310-434-4689
Fax: 310-434-4387

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sika Berger [mailto:SBERGER at email.smith.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:07 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Cross-campus searching
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> **********
> 
> Finally, any experience with Alkaline?  I've searched their online
> support postings and found some encouraging comments.
> http://alkaline.vestris.com/
> 
> **********
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sika Berger
> Web Coordinating Committee Chair
> Smith College Libraries
> Northampton, MA   01063
> sberger at smith.edu
> 
> 
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