[WEB4LIB] Cross-campus searching

[Shyam Prasad pujar]

If you are looking for remote search engine then consider Picosearch,
which allows mutliple domain indexing. Their free service (up to 1500
pages) allows you to index three domains, for more one has to pay for the
service. The site URL is: http://www.picosearch.com. The service is free
from advertisements, however their logo appears on the results page.

Regards,
 
Shamprasad Pujar
Assistant Librarian
IGIDR, Mumbai, India
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Sika Berger wrote:

> 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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