What does search.mit.edu index?
A. It indexes world-readable web pages that are served from webservers at MIT. It finds new websites and web pages by “spidering”, or following links from web pages it already knows about. See http://web.mit.edu/search/help/inktomi_at_mit.html for additional information. • Q. How do I make a form search a webserver not at MIT? A. You should contact the administrator of the webserver to find out. The MIT search engine does not index webservers outside of the MIT network. • Q. What are the “internal names” of the collections of ‘search.mit.edu’? A. ‘search.mit.edu’ indexes two main collections of documents. Each collection has an internal name which you must use if you want to restrict your query to a particular collection. The collections and their internal names are: • webmit: the collection of world-readable documents served via ‘web.mit.edu’ • websrvrs: the collection of world-readable documents served via other webservers at MIT (that is, not including ‘web.mit.edu’) • Q. What are a
