[Web4lib] Creating a Google-based site search capability

[Nick Dobbing]

I implemented Google's public service search at the University of Guelph
library, and it has worked well. You can customize the search results
template with HTML for your headers and footers, and you can use your own
style sheet, so it can be made to look very much like part of your site. The
results page is still Google-branded, but quite modestly. 

To see it in action, try the "site search" on this page:

http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/search/

Nick Dobbing
Vancouver, BC


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jim Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:02 AM
To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Creating a Google-based site search capability

Google offers what they call the Public Service Search free to non-profits.
See
https://services.google.com/publicservice/login

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Clinton Lowery
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:38 AM
> To: Web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Creating a Google-based site search capability
> 
> Recently I attended a workshop on emerging technologies and the 
> presenter discussed the possibility of using Google's 'site:<site 
> name> <word/phrase>' capability to search one's own site.