The UPC Search Engine

The UPC search engine is a unified system based on Google technology for the search and indexing of the content of the different sites of the UPC.

This inLab project unified the search, indexing and presentation of information for all the websites of the UPC using the Google Search Appliance.

Apart from the searches on all the websites of the UPC (more than a hundred when it implemented) there was a further development of features. Each center can now use it as a search engine on their websites, they can change its appearance and manage their own featured links. In addition, two onle-block modules were created to allow the look-up of builing and people in the University.

The UPC Search Engine project was designed to implement the Google Search Appliance (GSA in order to:

• Improve the current search engine on the UPC website.
• Integrate all the information in the UPC under the same indexing and search system, as a further step towards the integration of the different university websites.
• Establish the definition of the architecture of the information resulting from the search, regardless of the GSA.
• Provide a system that enables all the information on the UPC websites to be found in an efficient and effective way and that can index all the types of documents published on all UPC websites (HTML pages, PDF, Word, and PowerPoint formats, image files, etc.).
• Provide departments in the UPC with a simple system for integrating web search on their websites, as well as the management of results taking into account that:
  • It should be accessible to a great number of users.
  • It has to be able to configured following the requirements of the UPC.
• Integrate the search engine with corporate applications.