Should CAES search also pull in results from Student's & Extension Publications?

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Should CAES search also pull in results from Student's & Extension Publications?

Opened this issue 8 years ago · 7 comments

Currently if you search for student-related things on the CAES home page, it doesn't pull in any results from the different sites.

I don't know if this is even possible, because I know they are separate entities in Google custom search... but it would definitely be nice if it was possible.

Answer 1 · 2017-01-05T19:45:08.000Z

Definitely possible. And we should do it for students, at least. I'd solicit Cindy and David's opinion on anything that should also be included. I'd vote no on Extension pubs. But there might be other things. I can show you how to add web properties via the Google CSE admin site.

Answer 2 · 2017-01-05T19:45:48.000Z

So to be clear - can you get David/Cindy's opinion and get back to me? Then we can work together to make the changes.

Answer 3 · 2017-01-05T20:15:57.000Z

@bwhet Totally! This actually came up while David was in my office. We both feel that the different sites should be tied together in search somehow. We are just not exactly sure how in this moment. I'll send an email to both of them now and get back to you.

Answer 4 · 2017-01-05T20:42:45.000Z

Ok, so I just heard back from David and Cindy. They both think that by default, the CAES search should include both Students and Extension results, and then have the option to exclude them.

But I also want to get your thoughts on that as a plan. I think whatever we do, we should do some pretty significant testing. For some examples, like searching for study abroad information, also including results from the student's site would be incredibly helpful... but I can also envision scenarios where someone from Plant Pathology just wants to find something in their department, and then end up being overwhelmed by Extension publication search results. I'm not sure, but I am sure that if that is what we do, we'll need to do some testing.

Answer 5 · 2017-01-05T20:51:18.000Z

I think I would prefer separation between CAES and Extension, but I'm all for including stuff from Students - it's conceptually a part of the CAES website. I could also see including results from blog.caes.uga.edu sites. But even if they override my opinion, that's cool. It's easy to add and remove them. We might also be able to find some example searches from Analytics or the Google Web Console. Can you set up time for us to do the work?

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Answer 6 · 2017-01-05T21:01:16.000Z

Sure thing. I was going to shoot for next Thursday (1/12) to give us time to focus on the Intranet/Apps migration first, but the conference room is unavailable. Would you be open to me getting the projector and setting up in my/Gabe's office?

Answer 7 · 2017-01-05T21:17:35.000Z

Sure, or we can just look over each other's shoulder. If the projector is easy, that's fine with me.

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