Chapter 17 - Search Engine


This option in your Control Panel will allow you to install the Webglimpse Search Engine to your web site.

WebGlimpse adds search capabilities to your WWW site easily. It attaches a small search box to the bottom of every HTML page you edit, and allows the search to cover the neighborhood of that page or the whole site. With WebGlimpse there is no need to construct separate search pages, and no need to interrupt the users from their browsing. All pages remain unchanged except for the extra search capabilities. It is even possible for the search to efficiently cover remote pages linked from your pages. (WebGlimpse will collect such remote pages to your disk and index them.) Installation, customization (e.g., deciding which pages to collect and which ones to index), and maintenance are easy.


Getting Started

To install the Webglimpse Search Engine, click on the Search Engine option inside your Control Panel and then click on Install Search Engine. It will take approximately 10 minutes for the server to install the search engine.

After approximately 10 minutes, return to your Control Panel and click on the Search Engine option. You will now see a list of options that will enable you to manage the Webglimpse Search Engine. Each option will provide you with complete instructions for setting up and utilizing the search engine.

Please be advised that search engine is not added to all pages automatically, You must copy and paste the html code found in wgindex.html (this file is automatically created when you installed Webglimpse search engine) to every page you like to add the search capability.

Actually there are two ways to get it on a site that has already been installed.

1) Create a link to http://domainname/wgindex.html (which opens to the pre-designed search page).

2) To add search to a custom existing page, open http://domainname/wgindex.html and copy the body portion of the html code. Paste it into the target page html. The target page must located in the same directory as the original wgindex.html file.

Here is a sample of the HTML for the Webglimpse search engine:

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<center>
<table border=5>
<tr><td align=center valign=middle>
<a href="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/webglimpse"><imgsrc=".glimpse-eye.jpg" alt="Webglimpse Logo" align=middle height=34
width=60></A>
</td>
<td align=center valign=middle>
<font size=+3>
<ahref="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/webglimpse">
WebGlimpse</a>Search<br></font></td></tr>
<!-- Admins - local copy pointers have been 
eliminated as of v1.6. If this
bothers you e-mail gberns@tucson.com and complain -->
<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>
<FORM method=get 
ACTION="/cgi-bin/webglimpse/home/username/domain-www">Search the full archive: domainname Search</td></tr><tr>
<td colspan=2>String to search for: <INPUT NAME=query size=30>
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE=Submit>
<br>
<INPUT NAME=case TYPE=checkbox>Case sensitive
<!-- SPACES -->
<INPUT NAME=whole TYPE=checkbox>Partial match
<!-- SPACES -->
<INPUT NAME=lines TYPE=checkbox>Jump to line
<!-- SPACES -->
<SELECT NAME=errors align=right><OPTION>0<OPTION>1<OPTION>2</SELECT>misspellings allowed<br>
</center>Return only files modified within the last <INPUT NAME=age size=5>
days.<br>Maximum number of files returned:<SELECT NAME=maxfiles><OPTION>10<OPTION selected>50<OPTION>100<OPTION>1000</SELECT>
<br>Maximum number of matches per file returned:<SELECT NAME=maxlines><OPTION>10<OPTION selected>30<OPTION>50<OPTION>500</SELECT>
<br>Maximum number of characters output per file:<INPUT NAME="maxchars" VALUE=10000><br><!-- Admins - remove this line to
 stop caching next hits --><INPUT NAME="cache" VALUE="yes" TYPE="HIDDEN"></FORM>
</td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><center><font size=-2><ahref="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu">Glimpse</a> and<ahref="http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/webglimpse">
WebGlimpse</a>,Copyright © 1996,University of Arizona</center></font></td></tr></table>
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