Search Engine Strategies
Boston College has licensed the InfoSeek UltraSeek server to function as our primary search engine. Initially this product will be used to improve the performance of search on the BC website. Going forward, we hope to use some of the functionality of UltraSeek to begin to personalize content for visitors to our website.
To best use the search engine to locate your pages, please consult the documentation about MetaTags and how to use search on your pages. It is critical that you use metatags, including keywords, authors and descriptions in your pages.
A few notes about the search engine at Boston College:
The search engine uses spidering technology to index these sites* every night:
http://bceagles.fansonly.com/
http://careercenter.bc.edu/
http://chemserv.bc.edu/
http://fmwww.bc.edu/
http://iml.bc.edu/
http://isc.bc.edu/
http://ph99.bc.edu/
http://resource.bc.edu/
http://ugbc.org/
http://www.bc.edu/
http://www.bcappalachia.org/
http://www.cs.bc.edu/
http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/
If your site is missing from this list, please contact the BC webmaster to have it added.
Password protected sites can be indexed if you notify the webmaster of the url of the site and the password. The search engine would return the Title and Description of a password protected site. Users clinking on the search result of a password protected site, would be prompted for the password.
You may also request to have a site excluded from the search engine.
In addition, any directory beginning with the path /protof will not be indexed. This is in keeping with previous policy on the web servers to allow people a place to develop content without it being accessible to the outside world.
Because the search engine uses spidering technology, it only finds those files which are linked to from the top page of the site and then every subsequent link found from the top page down. Its much like a spider's web where everything is interconnected.
The search engine does not index orphan pages, those pages which have no links to them from anywhere else on the site.
*The Personal Web Server is currently not included in the search index.
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