The Google Search Appliance was upgraded from version 3.0 to version 4.0 on September 14, 2006. Sites that refer to custom stylesheets or Sub-Collections were affected by this upgrade. The 3.0 Appliance, find-old.stanford.edu, will be shut down on October 10, 2006. Sites with search boxes that refer to find-old.stanford.edu should migrate to the new 4.0 Appliance, ask.stanford.edu, immediately.
On October 10, if you have not made the necessary changes, the search function will no longer work.
Please refer to the two linked pages below for more details.
Overview
Google is Stanford University's official search engine. Google represents a significant enhancement to the University's web environment, providing:
- Better and quicker search results
- Advanced search features, including searching for PDF, .doc and .ppt files, and displaying them as HTML
- Easy and powerful search administration
- Easy integration into web sites
Bringing the Google search appliance into the Stanford infrastructure allows us features that the commercial Google Stanford index cannot duplicate, such as:
- continuous crawling
- managing our own Collections and Front Ends
- customizing Format, KeyMatches (equivalent to the commercial service's "sponsored links"), Synonyms, and Filters of the search results
- as FERPA and HIPAA regulations begin to have an effect on the availability of web content (requiring some pages to be access-restricted, for example), the campus search appliance can be authenticated to crawl and index where outside search engines cannot.
IT Services, which supports and manages the University's central web infrastructure and services, operates and maintains the Google search appliance.
University Communications, which operates and maintains the Stanford home page (http://www.stanford.edu), has implemented the Google search feature on the home and second-level pages of the Stanford web site.
Getting more information
- An announcements mailing list exists for Google users: search-partners@lists.stanford.edu.
If you use the Google search appliance on your Stanford web site, please subscribe to this list for notifications of service changes, updates, etc. - Information and instructions for web creators includes information about:
- getting your page into the Google index
- keeping your page out of the Google index
- adding a Google search feature to your site, plus:
- Stanford's configuration of the Google search appliance
- If you have comments or questions about using Google to power the search feature on your website, enter a HelpSU request.
- If you need a page indexed immediately, enter a HelpSU request.
- Slides from the Google Tech Briefing are available online. Check the schedule for upcoming Tech Briefings (or request a new Tech Briefing).
- A newsgroup has been created for Google users: su.computers.search. Post questions or discussions to other Stanford Google users on this newsgroup.
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