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Switching from Harvest to Ultraseek |
Harvest users should be aware that the service will be turned off on December 31, 1999.
Web publishers will be able to create forms in the same way that they did for Harvest. Ultraseek does not have exactly the same field names to search as Harvest did. Harvest allowed people to search titles, headings, and entire documents. Ultraseek allows searches in many of the same fields, with some additional fields available. For more information on creating a search interface with Ultraseek, please see the pages on Customizing Ultraseek.
Note: If no field is specified, Ultraseek searches for
the text in the Title, Summary, and Body.
Harvest Feature |
Ultraseek Feature |
Ultraseek Description/Difference |
entire documents |
body |
Searches the body of the text |
keywords |
keywords |
Searches meta tags for keywords |
titles |
title |
Searches the title of the document from the header |
descriptions |
description |
Searches the description of the document, which is specified in a meta tag or defaults to the first 200 characters of the document's body |
HTML body |
N/A |
Ultraseek does not allow you to search the HTML in a document |
headings |
N/A |
Ultraseek does not search headings alone, but does consider them in scoring documents |
address |
URL |
Searches for documents that match a specific pattern in the URL |
N/A |
site name |
Searches for pages on a specified site |
URL references |
links |
Searches for documents with a link to |
image references |
an image link |
Searches for documents that use an image to link to the location specified |
N/A |
image alt text |
Searches the alternate image tags |
Normal/compact |
Show/hide summaries |
Allows users to specify how search results are returned |
Maximum matches |
Hits per page |
Specifies results to return per page |
Sort results by relevance |
Sort results by relevance, date or title |
Provides multiple sorting options |
N/A |
Sort by date range |
Allows user to specify a range of dates for documents to search for |