Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 2070

Becoming a Search Service Host
Companies who want customers to find information about their products
outsource this functionality to search service companies to make their
information searchable.
With NetWare Web Search Server, you can offer professional search services
to other companies. Using a single installation of Web Search, you can host
several search sites simultaneously, which means that you could use the same
server to offer search services to several customer Web sites.
HINT:
The version of Web Search included with NetWare 6 allows only three
search sites. If you are interested in hosting more than 3 search sites, contact your
Novell sales representative.
For example, suppose you built a corporate Intranet for a company called
Digital Airlines (www.digitalairlines.com), and an extranet for a company
called StudioBrand (www.studiobrand.com). Each of these sites are hosted by
different Web Presence Providers (WPP) in different locations. In both cases,
the sites are created and maintained by Web design companies who work
closely with the WPP.
You offer to handle the search features of both sites. First, you send each Web
design company a few lines of HTML code that displays a basic search form
that includes a search field and related search buttons and instruct them to
place the code wherever they want the search form to appear on the Web sites.
They might use include technology (e.g. server-side includes) to integrate the
search form throughout the Web site's hundreds of HTML pages.
While the Web design companies implement the search forms, you use Web
Search Manager to define the search sites and then to index each Web site.
Both Web sites contain links out to other Web sites that host related content.
Web Search follows those links, too.
Digital Airlines is a very large Web site and is graphic intensive, so you
configure Web Search to ignore certain file types, such as GIF or JPG files. In
addition, you know that the Digital Airlines Web site contains a very thorough
site index, sometimes called a site map, that would serve as an ideal starting
point for Web Search to begin crawling while it generates a site index. So you
enter a starting URL into NetWare Web Manager that points at the site index,
which you know will also improve the quality of search results.
StudioBrand hosts a lot of PDF documents. In fact, PDF files are critical to
StudioBrand customers and so you want to be sure to include PDF as a file
type to be indexed. In addition, there is a significant amount of important text-
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