The University search engine

University search screenshot

We use Google Mini to index our website. All templated sites include a search box in the top right hand of each page.

Restricted searches

We can set up the search on your site so that the results will be limited to the content of your site, instead of the whole University website. Contact us if you would like to set up a restricted search for your site, and we'll provide you with the code you need.

What is indexed?

We index all publicly-available content on the main University website (www.york.ac.uk), and most subdomains (eg www.cs.york.ac.uk, maths.york.ac.uk).

Password-protected and personal web areas are not indexed.

If you have a site on a subdomain which you would like to be indexed, please contact us.

I don't want certain documents to be indexed, but I don't want to restrict access to them.

To stop certain pages from being included in search results, add the following to the <HEAD> section of the page:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

If you don't want other files to be indexed, such as Word and Excel documents, add the following code to any page that links to them:

<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow">

 

Who to contact

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