<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Lorna A Schmid" <<a href="mailto:lorna@usgs.gov">lorna@usgs.gov</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">August 15, 2008 4:44:00 PM MDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>USGS Google Search Update</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"GS Help Search" <<a href="mailto:gs_help_search@usgs.gov">gs_help_search@usgs.gov</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><br><font size="2" face="Verdana">This email is being sent to EWeb Inventory POCs - <br> Enjoy and feel free to pass it on!</font><p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>USGS Google Search Update</b></font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Read on for some helpful hints for users, for optimizing Web content and for providing better search functionality for our USGS Web content. </font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>Internal Search -> internal-search.usgs.gov</b></font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><i>An internally hosted Google Search Appliance</i></font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Find & Contact Your Colleagues </font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">a. The </font><a><font size="2" face="Verdana">Internal Search Engine</font></a><font size="2" face="Verdana"> lets you search the Lotus Address Book (LDAP) for people’s contact information. Their name, phone number, and address is linked to a Google map of their location. The trigger for this service is the keyword “Contact” followed by the person’s first name, last name or both. </font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">b. This service uses Google’s OneBox technology, which you can also see in action on </font><a><font size="2" face="Verdana">www.google.com</font></a><font size="2" face="Verdana"> if you type in “weather ‘zip code’ ” or “movie ‘zip code’ ”. </font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Are you registered in the Web Inventory? </font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">a. If you’re not seeing internal search results for your pages, make sure those pages are registered! The internal search appliance is only indexing pages that are in the Web Inventory - <a href="http://interactive3.er.usgs.gov/web_inventory/">http://interactive3.er.usgs.gov/web_inventory/</a> </font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Note: If the hostname (xx.usgs.gov) is registered then the content is being indexed unless there is a robots.txt file in place.</font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Control how your pages are indexed – use robots.txt files</font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">a. The USGS Search Appliance crawler name is <i>usgs-gsa-crawler.</i> Use a robots.txt file to block directories that should not be indexed. Directions are available from the documentation link below and</font><a href="http://internal.usgs.gov/gio/eweb/wag/search_improvement/code.html"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Verdana"> </font></a><font size="2" face="Verdana">remember this will be helpful for public pages as well!)</font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>Public Search -> search.usgs.gov</b></font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><i>The Google Custom Search Engine, a customizable on-line search application hosted by Google</i></font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Allow users to search an individual Web site or set of related sites</font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">a. Follow the instructions on the documentation link below to customize the search results for your pages.</font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Our Search documentation is at </font> <br><font size="2" color="blue" face="Verdana"><u> <a href="http://internal.usgs.gov/gio/eweb/wag/search_improvement/code.html">http://internal.usgs.gov/gio/eweb/wag/search_improvement/code.html</a></u></font> <br><font size="2" face="Verdana">Additional information about robot.txt files:</font><a href="http://wwwqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/www/webmaster/search.html#stayingUnfound"></a> <br><font size="2" color="blue" face="Verdana"><u> <a href="http://wwwqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/www/webmaster/search.html#stayingUnfound">http://wwwqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/www/webmaster/search.html#stayingUnfound</a></u></font> </p><p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>Questions or comments are welcome anytime: <a href="mailto:gs_help_search@usgs.gov">gs_help_search@usgs.gov</a></b></font></p></div><br></body></html>