[Web4lib] Customizable web search software?

[Richard Wiggins]

You can use Google itself to do this for at least a handful of domains. (I'm 
not sure how many "site:" parameters you can specify.)
 For instance, this searches Google for "brown bag" at a variety of sites:
 *site:help.msu.edu <http://help.msu.edu> OR
site:acns.msu.edu<http://acns.msu.edu>OR site:
ais.msu.edu <http://ais.msu.edu> OR
site:msuwired.msu.edu<http://msuwired.msu.edu>OR site:
computing.msu.edu <http://computing.msu.edu> brown bag*
** 
*/r*


 On 8/10/05, Petter Naess <pnaess at usa.no> wrote: 
> 
> A related tool is neighborsearch...described here:
> http://ircworld.blogspot.com/2004/11/neighborsearch.html or here
> http://www.researchbuzz.org/search_for_keywords_in_sets_of_links.shtml
> 
> The prerequisite is that the selection of "best online websites in the
> field" are linked to from a specific page; that page might be an existing
> portal, or an ad-hoc page consisting of the urls (or domains) that you
> specify.
> 
> 
> 
> Petter Nass
> Information Resource Director
> U.S.Embassy, Public Affairs
> Drammensveien 18
> 0244 Oslo
> Norway
> phone (47) 21308802
> fax (47) 22440436
> pnaess at usa.no
> http://www.usa.no
> http://ircworld.blogspot.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Tara Calishain
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:27 PM
> To: Melissa Martinez; web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Customizable web search software?
> 
> 
> At 04:24 PM 8/9/2005, Melissa Martinez wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I work in a theological library where we would like to be able to provide
> our users with a way to search some of the best online websites in this
> field all at the same time. The idea is for something similar to the way
> that Google's advanced search allows you to search within a domain, but we
> would want to search within several domains (even if all the program did 
> was
> tell Google to search term x on domain y then term x on domain z and then
> compiled the results, that would be sufficient). Does anyone know of a
> program that does this? Or, if there is an online web search that could be
> customized this way and the settings saved with a password, that would be 
> a
> good start. Thanks in advance.
> 
> I made a tool last fall that will generate a bookmarklet or a JavaScript
> search form to search the domains you specify. It uses Yahoo. You can try 
> it
> at
> 
> http://www.researchbuzz.org/new_yahoo_hack_searchroller_for_domain_searches
> .
> shtml .
> 
> Tara
> 
> 
> 
> 
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