Web Design > Google Search Appliance Google is Columbia's internal search engine. The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is a special hardware/software combination housed at Columbia. Having our own search appliance allows us to customize the indexing process, collection definitions, the format of results pages, and other aspects of search. The new Google-powered search engine provides: fast results relevance-matching using Google's proprietary algorithm sorting by date personal web pages included in search results CUIT, which supports and manages Columbia's central web infrastructure and services, operates and maintains the Google Search Appliance. Getting more information Refer to the online documentation, listed above in the sidebar, for information about: including your pages in the Google index keeping your pages out of the Google index adding a Google search feature to your site designing a custom search or search results page for your site Submit a request to askCUIT: to have a web page indexed immediately to have a page removed from the index to ask a question or report a problem related to searching

Add a search box to your site Indexing policy what's included and what's not Publishing best practices make sure your pages get indexed Keep pages out of the index KeyMatches and related queries Custom collections, frontends and stylesheets