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I’m glad to be writing about some exciting updates to OSU Search. In version 0.4.2, you will find an updated look and feel and some usability features. Among the new things you will find are: The links to different types of search (collections) are located on a left sidebar instead of above the search box. [...]

Search v0.4 was released. In this release, we fixed a few bugs as well as a few features that incorporate some of the remaining out of the box Google Search Appliance features including: Display a link to ‘more results from …’ Indent results if they are related to each other Specify the format of the [...]

Please check this page frequently.  Updates to code for integrating search for sites will be provided here. OSU Search lets users search for your content across all of OSU. No matter where they type in their query, results from across OSU will be displayed for any visitors. As of January 1st, 2010.  OSU has switched [...]

A maintenance release was pushed to production for Search, version 0.3.1. For those who haven’t noticed the capabilities of search, look at the options, if a word is typed in, there may be some suggestions offered.  At the bottom is related searches, if you misspell a word, you may see a “Did you mean…”.  Also, [...]

As part of the next search release, we now have a quick feedback module.  If you are looking for a particular search which you know is on a specific site, for example, on forestry.oregonstate.edu, and you do not find that, what do you do?  Well, let us know. It is entirely possible that sites are [...]

You’ve probably come here maybe because you clicked on the Keyword link from our search page, or you came across our blog, or from blogs.o.e.  But however you arrived here is secondary to the information that you want. What is a Keyword, how do I get one?  The first part is easy, a Keyword is [...]

With the release of the Advanced Search function, we have released Search as production.  Hmm, what does that mean?  Well, now if you go to the original search site, at search.oregonstate.edu, it is the new Google Search Appliance search.  So does that mean that’s it you ask?  Well, no.  There’s still more features coming, like [...]

So, we’ve been talking about search, and people no doubt wonder if their site will be found with OSU’s Google Search. Most cases, the answer is yes, but in some cases the answer is no.  For the no’s there are reasons why and is what I want to talk about in this post. The Exceptions [...]

So Search Beta was released in conjunction with the new top hat design for OSU (another change as part of future upcoming changes).  A great effort between Central Web Services (otherwise known as CWS) and Web Communications.  The same collaborative group that introduced OSU Mobile.  Don’t know about OSU Mobile?  Well for that, visit m.oregonstate.edu [...]

Search Introduction The OSU search tool has been updated to provide a better long-term web search solution for Oregon State University. The purpose of the OSU Search Category in the CWS blog is to examine the evolution of OSU’s web search, and offer more detailed information about OSU’s current search capabilities and keep OSU current [...]