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Tag: search

  • Calendar Events in Google Search Results

    Calendar Events in Google Search Results

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    Google has recently started showing our calendar events next to many search results at Gustavus. Want to know what’s happening at Gustavus? Search for gustavus. Wondering when the next big game is? Search for gustavus football. Curious about what the SAO has been up to? Search for gustavus student activities. This magic is possible because…

  • Blog Post Thumbnails in Search Results

    Blog Post Thumbnails in Search Results

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    Good news for Gustavus bloggers, we have taken another step toward making our search engine work a little bit better–blog post thumbnails will now appear next to search results just like profile photos.

  • Profile Photos in Search Results

    Profile Photos in Search Results

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    Wading through search results can be tough when everything looks the same. It takes time to read through the results to find what you are looking for. Zeroing in on search results about a person at Gustavus just got a bit easier–we’ve added profile photos to our search results.

  • College Calendar Gets Better Search

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    We just launched a major improvement to the way that the College Calendar displays search results which will help visitors find the information they are looking for.

  • How to Find Free Images

    How to Find Free Images

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    Have you ever been writing a blog post or putting together a website and thought that all it really needs is a couple of decent photos? If you don’t have the time or talent to take photos for your pages, you might feel like you are out of luck. On the contrary, there’s good news…

  • Religion Theses Search

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    While the religion department has been posting copies of students’ senior theses on its website for a number of years, we recently added a handy search box to the page. Thanks to a little bit of help from some Google technology, you can now search through all of these academic documents. There’s a lot of…

  • Gribly suggest as you type

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    We just added an exciting new feature to the Gribly: search suggestions as you type.

  • Did You Mean… Search Suggestions in the Gribly?

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    Finding people in the Gribly just got a lot easier. That’s right, you will now get helpful suggestions that may help you find who you are looking for, especially when you don’t know how to spell someone’s name.

  • New Search Results

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    Along with Google’s announcement of the new Google Custom Search Engine, we are happy to announce that we are using the service for search results on the Gustavus website. Combined with the search cloud that we added in August, we believe that searching for pages on the Gustavus website has never been better. The new…