Search Stanford:
 

Pages on Google Search

• Overview
• Instructions for Web Creators
• Using as_q and as_oq parameters
• Subcollections
• Stanford search page

Related Pages

• Stanford's web services

• IT Services
• Google Search Appliance

Google Search Appliance

Overview

Google is Stanford University's official search engine. Google represents a significant enhancement to the University's web environment, providing:

• Better and quicker search results
• Advanced search features, including searching for PDF, .doc and .ppt files, and displaying them as HTML
• Easy and powerful search administration
• Easy integration into web sites

Bringing the Google search appliance into the Stanford infrastructure allows us features that the commercial Google Stanford index cannot duplicate, such as:

• control over our own crawling schedule
  • the on-site search appliance crawls the Stanford Web weekly, with an index for selected sites
  • the commercial Google service updates its University index approximately monthly
• managing our own KeyMatches (equivalent to the commercial service's "sponsored links"), search term synonyms, and sub-collections
• as FERPA and HIPAA regulations begin to have an effect on the availability of web content (requiring some pages to be access-restricted, for example), the campus search appliance can be authenticated to crawl and index where outside search engines cannot.

IT Services , which supports and manages the University's central web infrastructure and services, operates and maintains the Google search appliance.

University Communications, which operates and maintains the Stanford home page (http://www.stanford.edu), has implemented the Google search feature on the home and second-level pages of the Stanford web site.

Getting more information

• An announcements mailing list exists for Google users: search-engine-info@lists.stanford.edu.
  If you use the Google search appliance on your Stanford web site, please subscribe to this list for notifications of service changes, updates, etc.
   
• Information and instructions for web creators includes information about:
  • getting your page into the Google index
  • keeping your page out of the Google index
  • adding a Google search feature to your site, plus:
    • advanced parameters
    • subcollections and stylesheets
  • Stanford's configuration of the Google search appliance

• If you have comments or questions about using Google to power the search feature on your website, enter a HelpSU request.

• If you need a page indexed more quickly or frequently than once per week, enter a HelpSU request.

• Slides from the Google Tech Briefing are available online. Check the schedule for upcoming Tech Briefings (or request a new Tech Briefing).

• A newsgroup has been created for Google users: su.computers.search. Post questions or discussions to other Stanford Google users on this newsgroup.