Search by external search services
We can have external users search the portal site by using search services such as Google or Yahoo! This works for public pages only, that is, for pages that users can access without a user ID and password.
To make the portal available for search by external users, register it with the external search service(s) of the choice. Give the URL of the portal to the search service providers so that they can crawl and index the portal site. Depending on how you customize the portal, you might consider indicating the Site Map page rather than the portal home page, or otherwise enhancing the configuration.
Configure the portal site for search by external search services
Optionally, we can configure several additional aspects for search on the portal by external search services:
- By default, the Site Map portlet is available on the portal Welcome page.
If you do not want the users to be able to see the Site Map portlet, we can do one of the following:
- Place the Site Map portlet in the theme of the portal home page.
- Place the Site Map portlet on a separate page, and omit that page from the portal navigation.
The location of the Site Map portlet in the portal determines the URL by which you register to the external search service.
- We can configure the Site Map portlet to determine the depth to which the portal can be searched.
- We can configure client identification for the external search engines.
- We can configure the URL normalization. For details about this parameter refer to the State Manager Service under the information about URL normalization.
For more information about portal service configuration parameters and how to set them refer to Portal service configuration and Set configuration properties.
- Configure the Site Map portlet for search by external search engines
- Client identification for search of the portal by external search engines
Parent topic:
Search by anonymous users on the portal site