Search Engine Help Pages
The UT system has nearly 700,000 web-pages. This number is growing everyday. In order to index and search this vast collection, UT has adopted a powerful software package from Verity Corporation. The package allows for efficient and through indexing and supports fast and highly sophisticated searching. It is our hope this software will become an integral tool in finding and exploiting the information located in UT's rapidly expanding web-space.

Here, we have developed some help pages covering the new Ultraseek software. Listed below are links to the indicated topics and resources.

• History
  
  
• Customize the UT Templates for site specific search
  
  
• How web pages are ranked
  
  
• Adding/updating your site
  
  
• Excluding the spider from your web-site
  
  
• How to perform sophisticated searches using advanced syntax
  
  
• How to customize search interfaces to limit searches to specific subsets of UT's web-space
  
  
• Getting your results in alternative format
  
  
• How to customize the results page
  
  
• Logging queries to your site
  
  
• How to remove your web domain
  
  
• Working examples of search customizations
  
  
• Ready-to-use templates for search boxes
  
  
• Making Search-Engine-Friendly Sites