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Information and Instructions for Web Site Creators

By Keith Seabourn

Overview

The Google Search Appliance has been licensed by Campus Crusade for Christ to provide search capabilities to individual ministries and to the global movement. The Google Search Appliance is combined with an authorization engine developed by the Global Technology Office. This provides the Global ConneXion Search engine and allows all the knowledge in Campus Crusade for Christ to be searched from one easy location. Once the search is complete, the knowledge is filtered by the permissions of the searcher so that only authorized material is visible.

The GCX search engine is available at search.ccci.org and on many Campus Crusade websites.

The following instructions will help Campus Crusade web site creators to:

  • prepare web content for indexing in Google
  • make best use of Google's features

Note: If you plan to use the Google search appliance on your Campus Crusade web site, please join the GCXSearch Community for more documentation, notifications of service changes, updates, etc. You will need a GCX SSO Login and will need to browse for the community to join.

How to...

Get pages into the index

Google’s indexing robot starts at any main pages such as the main www.ccci.org web site and follows links to find all indexable pages under that domain. To get your web pages into the index:

  • Submit a request for us to addyour ministry website. The Google crawler automatically recognizes changed, new, and removed pages during its scheduled crawls.
  • make sure your pages don't contain meta tags that prevent the robot from indexing your page.

Secure websites - GCX Search can also be used with secure websites only if you are using our GCX Single Sign On (GCX SSO). If a GCX SSO user is authorized to use your website then they will be able to find search-results from your site. You must provide us with access to the secure website.  GCX SSO and GCX Search will automatically take care of the authentication for your users. You can further limit the directories being searched by:

  • telling us the directories to include or exclude
  • you can use robot.txt to exclude directories or
  • you can give limited access to our user

Check GCX Search Manager Community for more details.

Keep pages out of the index

If you don't want a page to be indexed, insert this <meta> tag within your page's <head> tag:

<head>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
</head>

This will prevent crawlers (robots) from indexing the page and from following any links from the page.  If the page has already been indexed, it will be removed from the index the next time Google crawls the page.

You can prevent the pages in a directory from being indexed by restricting access to the directory with a password.

If you need to get a page out of the index urgently, enter a request to remove URL. Provide the URL of the page you want removed and indicate whether you want the page suppressed temporarily or permanently.

 

Put a search box on your site

You can add a search box to help visitors find content on your site. You can restrict the search to a specified directory or search the entire Stanford web site. The search box will look and behave like this:


This site only All CCCI

 

The visitor can enter a search term and click the Search button; the page will leave your site and display the search results in a formatted page.

1. Insert the following HTML into your web page where you want the search box to appear:

<form method="get" action="http://search.ccci.org/search">
<input type="text" name="q" size="32" maxlength="255" value=""/>
<input type="submit" name="btnG" value="Search"/>
<input type="radio" checked name="sitesearch" value="<yoururl>">This site only
<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="">All CCCI
<br>
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="default_collection">
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="global">
<input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="global">
<input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd"/>
</form>

2. Customize the following parameters:

  • name='q' size='32'
    Sets the width (in number of characters) of the search box. You can change the size to suit your site's layout, but don't change the maxlength value.
  • name='btnG' value='Search'
    The text that appears on the search button.
    e.g.:
         "Search Entire Site")

3. Allow users to search "This site only" or "All CCCI" by customizing the blue lines

<input type="radio" checked name="sitesearch" value="<yoururl>">This site only
<input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="">All CCCI
<br>

4. You can request a collection and a frontend. A collection is a grouping of websites that provide additional capabilities. A frontend is a display control that allows you to style the returned results to look like your website's presentation. The red values above should be customized for specialized collections and frontends. Some examples of different collection and frontend implementations are available on the search pages of these websites:

Crawling schedule

The search appliance has initially been configured to crawl Campus Crusade websites every few days. If your new page must be included in search results immediately, enter a Reindex request.


· GCX Search Engine

· Check site index

· Add Site

· Remove Site

· Request Reindex

· Stanford University Google Appliance Site

· Duke University Google Appliance Site

· MyGCX

· GTO Projects & Partnerships

 

 

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