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The information at http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/web-search/ gives detail about using Ultraseek, our site-wide search engine, as follows:
- How the search engine indexes web servers
- What webmasters could or should do
- Setting up search links and forms
- Using <META> tags to enhance effectiveness
- Excluding search engines
Some detail will have changed since Ultraseek was recently bought by Verity, but the functional information remains correct. There is an article (Search engines and the University site-wide search facility) in the CS newsletter (April 2005) giving further information.
Our local indexing agent works on the basis of revisiting sites at regular intervals that are gained by experience of how often files have changed. In the version of the software we use now, the whole site can be reindexed by going to http://web-search.cam.ac.uk/help/ and selecting 'Revisit site' (there are options for when you want this to happen). Users can add a single page at a time to the index by going to http://web-search.cam.ac.uk/help/addurl.html and inserting the url - links off this new page will then be followed by the indexer.
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