Comments on: Google Search your Site(s)!

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:55:14 +0000

Yes. You can add “http://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/LIS/” as one of the URLs to include pages from the LIS wiki in the results.

By: Dan Frostman

Dan Frostman — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:44:37 +0000

Will this also search the wiki?

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:22:27 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Jeff. The limited results are caused by what most hope is a bug on Google’s end when performing searches against their remote search API using the site: and inurl: filters (http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=27#c18). I’ll keep an eye on the progress of this issue and I’ll add in a note today letting people know when the search results no results.

By: Jeff R

Jeff R — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:57:50 +0000

Hi, this looks like a very useful tool. Looking at the News Archive search box, it seems that is currently limited to fairly recent news items? (for example, simply searching on “Clifford” only brings up a few entries, rather than the several that may be expected if one were looking for announcements from previous years’ Clifford Symposia). Google’s search tool is “smart” so it can do inexact matching: searching for “Robison” displays results that don’t contain that word but do contain “Robinson.”
Also, would it be possible, if no results are found, to indicate that? (otherwise, it just looks like nothing happened, and one could keep clicking “Search” thinking there must be something there…)
Again, thanks for this addition to the suite of tools that are available! -Jeff R