Web Developers Guide
This page is written for all UQ web developers and includes Web Developer FAQs and information about Creating a Search Form on the Google Search Appliance. You can also find information directed at UQ communities on the users guide.
A. Basic FAQ
- What is a Google Search Appliance?
- How is the appliance different from the public Google search?
- Is every web page published at UQ indexed in the search appliance?
- How do I add a page to the Google’s index? How can I remove pages?
- How many documents are in the UQ GSA license?
- Will the appliance crawler follow the URLs found within non-html documents?
- What file formats can the appliance index?
- How are ranking and relevancy determined?
- Can the GSA index documents in Microsoft Sharepoint?
- Where I get more information on the Google Search Appliance?
B. Creating a Search Form
This information is intended for web content maintainers within UQ whose sites do not currently reside on the UQ Content Management System (where search facilities are already built into the site templates). By inserting a short section of HTML code into your page template or on a dedicated search page on your site, it is possible to link to the Google Appliance to search for content specific to that site.
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C. Google Search Appliance Documentation
UQ is using Google Search Appliance version 5.0. Click on the link below to look up more information about the GSA.
Link: http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/50/