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