Piece by piece we’re trying to improve our google search tool. We can finally announce a few features we think will please you.
Simpler search queries
It’s been a major bugbear that we’ve had to include the long and unfriendly google account codes in our search forms and query strings, however, we’re now inserting these at the [...]
This morning we made some changes to the University’s google search tool which will deliver us more control and fix an annoying bug or two. Impact is expected to be virtually nil – users should not experience any degradation of service, but the following features should be added.
The search term will remain in the input [...]
For a little while at least, it seems like the ‘interim’ search is going to stay. So we might as well get to know it a bit better! Some people have complained about the lack of features compared to the old search engine, but I can assure you that they are still there, just not [...]
You wouldn’t need to be observant to have witnessed the anguished death throes of our Ultraseek search engine this past fortnight. It’s been up again, down again many times – at the moment it’s displaying some sort of awful error output. Not a good look.
As most of the University’s templated pages point to this search [...]