Search Tool

Overview

The Google Search Appliance has been licensed by Campus Crusade for Christ to provide search capabilities to our individual ministries and our global movement. The Google Search Appliance is combined with authorization engines like Relay and The Key. It 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. We monitor over 1500 domains worldwide. The search engine contains content from over 600 domains and over 3000 websites and collaborative communities.

The support help center can be found at https://getsatisfaction.com/gcx/products/gcx_gcx_search

The GCX search engine is available at https://search.gcx.org (secured by The Key) and https://search.ccci.org (secured by Relay). It is also available through Campus Crusade websites like these:

staffweb.ccci.org	keynote.org	leaderu.com	godsquad.com

Information and Instructions for Web Site Creators and Administrators

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

use this tool on your site
add your web site to the search engine
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 GCX Search Community for more documentation, notifications of service changes, updates, etc.

Add web pages to 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:

Check to see if it has already been added.
Submit a request for us to add your ministry website. After being approved, the Google crawler will automatically recognize new, changed and removed pages during its scheduled crawls. (We don’t include Staff Member sites or Facebook sites. Blog entries will automatically be added if you submit them to http://inconversation.org/ )
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 The Key Sign In System. If a user is signed in and 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. The Key and GCX Search will automatically take care of the authentication and authorization for your users. You can further limit the directories being indexed and 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>

</head>

Create a /robots.txt which might look something like this.

User-agent: gcxsearch
Disallow: /~joe/dev/
Disallow: /~joe/junk.html

User-agent: *
Disallow: /~joe/dev/
Disallow /~joe/junk.html
Disallow /~joe/moderatelyconfidential/

User-agent: BadBot
Disallow: /

This will ask all crawlers (robots) not to index the page and not to follow 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 all of your site or all CCCI or we can help you create a collection of domains to include. Here are two examples:

(This example uses three collections and provides the best reporting.)

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=”https://search.gcx.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<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>

or for more flexibility and better reporting:

<form action=”https://search.gcx.org/search” method=”get”><input maxlength=”255″ name=”q” size=”32” type=”text” /><input name=”btnG” type=”submit” value=”Search” /><input checked=”checked” name=”site” type=”radio” value=”your_collection” /> This Site<input name=”site” type=”radio” value=”your_collection2” /> All Tech<input name=”site” type=”radio” value=”your_collection3” /> All CCCI<input name=”client” type=”hidden” value=”global” /><input name=”proxystylesheet” type=”hidden” value=”global” /><input name=”output” type=”hidden” 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.
“This site only” or “All CCCI“Sets text next to radio buttons

3. 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. We suggest you work with us to create custom collections to help facilitate reporting capabilities. 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 a new page must be included in search results immediately, request a recrawl.

Documentation by Google

http://groups.google.com/group/google-search-appliance

http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/