Incorporating "Search This Site" Functionality Into Your Website

With the addition of an HTML form you can enable users to search your website and find your Web pages/documents.

Here is a sample form for the fictitious website at forestry.nd.edu:

<form method='get' action='http://search.nd.edu/search'>
 <input type='hidden' name='as_sitesearch' value='forestry.nd.edu' />
 <input type='hidden' name='client' value='default_frontend' />
 <input type='hidden' name='output' value='xml_no_dtd' />
 <input type='hidden' name='proxystylesheet' value='default_frontend' />
 <input type='hidden' name='site' value='default_collection' />
 <input type='text' name='q' />
 <input type='submit' value='Search' />
</form>

To make this form work for you change "forestry.nd.edu" to the name of your website. Do not include "http://". Do not include trailing slashes (/). Do not specify specific file names. You can specify subdirectories.

Here are examples of valid website specifications:

• president.nd.edu
• vocation.nd.edu
• www.nd.edu/~biology
• nd.edu/~gender
• www.business.nd.edu/IA

Here are examples of invalid specifications:

• http://www.nd.edu/~forestry (includes "http://")
• www.nd.edu/vetschool/ (includes a trailing slash)
• nd.edu/textiles/conference.pdf (points to a specific file)

For more information about the campus-wide search engine such as how it works, what it indexes, and how you can allow or dis-allow it to crawl your site, see the About The Campus-Wide Search Engine page.