A talk to a University of Cambridge Web Liaison meeting about our current search developments

1. Search Developments
Jon Warbrick
jw35@cam.ac.uk

2. Where we are

3. Where we are
Internal web search
External web search

4. Where we are
Internal web search
Delegated
Admin
External web search

5. Where we are
Internal web search
Delegated
Admin
External web search

6. What do you get?
• New, state of the art crawl and query
software
• New, faster hardware
• Better control of crawl and query tuning
• A number of new features...

7. Initial new features
• Query autocomplete
• Raven-authenticated crawling for ‘internal’
search (along with crawling from a CUDN
IP address)

8. What you might notice
• User agent:
FunnelBack (search-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk)
FunnelBack (internal search; search-support@ucs.cam.ac.uk)
• Crawler hostname/IP address
• Raven-authenticated spidering
• Details of the query syntax
• Access to machine-readable results

9. Where are we?
• Test systems installed, test crawls underway
• Production configuration being established
• Version of search.cam with Funnelback
under development
• Cut-over deployment later this calendar
year?

10. Questions?