Using the Search Engine

Introduction

We use the ht://Dig web indexing and searching system. All text, HTML, PostScript and PDF documents on all FNWI web servers are indexed during the weekend.

The main search form is accessible from the ICT group search page. You can also restrict searches to your own web pages.

Searching your own pages

There are two ways to accomplish this. The first one will give you a search form embedded in your own web page. You can customize it to fit your own needs.

The second way is to create a hyperlink in your web page to the index page. The index system then automagically configures itself to only index your web pages. This is the easiest way, although not configurable.

Your own form

If the following HTML code is included in your page, the search is limited to your pages only.

<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="/ict/search/htsearch.CGI">
<TABLE BORDER="0">
<TR>
    <TD>Search for</TD>
    <TD><INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE="60" NAME="words" VALUE=""><BR>
    And, or, not and parentheses can be used only in Boolean expression mode.
    </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD> </TD>
    <TD>
    <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0">
    <TR>
      <TD ALIGN="left">
        <SELECT NAME="method">
        <OPTION VALUE="and" SELECTED>Match all words
        <OPTION VALUE="or">Match any word
        <OPTION VALUE="boolean">Use boolean expression
        </SELECT>
      </TD>
      <TD ALIGN="right">
        <SELECT NAME="sort">
        <OPTION VALUE="score" SELECTED>Sort by score
        <OPTION VALUE="time">Sort by time
        <OPTION VALUE="title">Sort by title
        <OPTION VALUE="revscore">Sort by reverse score
        <OPTION VALUE="revtime">Sort by reverse time
        <OPTION VALUE="revtitle">Sort by reverse title
        </SELECT>
      </TD>
    </TR>
    </TABLE>
    </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD> </TD>
    <TD><INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Search"></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM>

This code will result in the following form:

Referring to the index

Referring to the index system is accomplished by including the following hyperlink in your document.

<A TARGET="_top" 
 HREF="http://www.science.uva.nl/ict/search/search.CGI">
 Search my WEB pages
</A>

This will create a link to the search engine, like this: Search my WEB pages . If you do that from your main web page, the indexing system will only report matches on search items found in documents in the same directory (and all directories below it) as where your document is stored.