Web Administration: Projects - Search Enhancements
Search Enhancements
A project to improve quality of UF's Google search appliance results and refresh the user interface for UF search.
Phase 1
- Initiated: June 10, 2009
- Completed:
Goals
- Improve quality of UF's Google search appliance results
- Refresh user interface for UF search
- Determine why "Search" is one of our top queries
Audience
Includes all members of the audience of the overall UF Web presence, including:
- Faculty
- Staff
- Students
- Prospective students
- General public
Deliverables
- Updated Google search appliances
- Verify that KeyMatches still apply
- Enable result clustering (if possible)
- Ensure dictionary is up-to-date
- Updated search results template (XSLT)
- Add document conversion (e.g. PDF to HTML) links
- Add cached document links
- Feedback form for search results
- Advanced search user interface
- Sort by date vs. relevance
- Search by file type
- Search within a specific ufl.edu domain
- Webmaster documentation page
- Contact information
- FAQs
- Links to robots.txt information
- Recommendations for discouraging "Search" as a query