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In September 2006 I asked Lisa Cameron-Norfleet at The Office of Web Communications to set up a Google Search Appliance Collection that I could use for searching Cornell University Library websites. She kindly (and quickly) created the collection and told me how to get in to the administrator interface. I added all the Cornell Universiy Library digital collections , the list of individual libraries, and a few other library websites. Here are the domains and paths currently in the collection.
Once a collection is established it's easy to use. Here is a simple search form using the collection:
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<form action="http://web.search.cornell.edu/search" method="GET" name="gs"> <label for="search-form-query">SEARCH Cornell University Library Websites:<br /></label> <input type="text" name="q" value="" size="50" maxlength="256" id="search-form-query" /> <input type="submit" name="btnG" value="go" id="search-form-submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="sort" value="" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" /> <input type="hidden" name="gsa_client" value="default_frontend" /> <input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" /> <input type="hidden" name="site" value="libraries" /> <!-- to seacrch all Cornell use name="site" value="note: 'libraries' instead of 'default_collection"' --> </form> |
I then pointed the search dialogs on several websites at this collection, and used some special code to display the search results. Here are the search pages that use the Google Search Appliance to search Cornell University Library websites:
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