CUIT Deploys Google Search Appliance
25 Jul 08
On July 23, 2008, CUIT introduced a new Google-based search function
on the Columbia home page and a number of second-level pages. Over the
coming weeks, more and more pages on the Columbia website with search
functions will be updated to use Google rather than the aging
Ultraseek search engine it replaced.
The new Google-powered search engine provides:
- fast results
- relevance-matching using Google's proprietary algorithm
- sorting by date
- personal web pages included in search results
The searches run on a Google Search Appliance (GSA), a special
hardware/software combination housed at Columbia. Having our own
search appliance allows us to customize the indexing process,
collection definitions, the format of results pages, and other aspects
of search.
The GSA crawls the Columbia website continuously, indexing any new
pages it finds. It is currently serving up approximately 500,000
pages.
CUIT, which supports and manages Columbia's central web infrastructure
and services, operates and maintains the Google Search
Appliance.
You can try out the new search engine on the Columbia home page or on
the main search page, at http://search.columbia.edu.
To learn more about the GSA or how to incorporate a Google search box
into your web page, refer to CUIT's online Google documentation.
The CUIT Google Team
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