QUT Search Engine

What is the QUT Search Engine?

The QUT search engine allows users to search within all QUT web resources. It is powered by Funnelback, and provides high quality result links based on simple search queries.

Search features:

• Recommended pages
• Daily index updates
• Multiple information formats (websites, databases, XML docs, file systems)
• Keyword searching
• Spelling suggestions
• Thesaurus suggestions
• Customisable ranking and sorting
• Site-specific and scoped searches
• Search results output as HTML, XML or RSS
• Metadata and summary displayed in results
• Search term highlighting
• Clustering and faceted navigation

Backend features:

• Crawler and indexer configuration
• Flexible indexing (secure sites, offline, incremental, scheduling, refresh)
• Query expansion
• User click feedback
• Inclusion and exclusion patterns
• Meta collections
• External metadata indexing
• Extensive logging and user reporting

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I improve my QUT internal search engine results?

By following the guides for optimising your content, and by selecting unique, content-appropriate keywords for each page of your website. Find out more about SEO techniques.

How do I get my websites as a 'Recommend Page' on QUT Search?

Log a job with the IT Helpdesk outlining your requirements and the Digital Communication team will contact you.

Who do I contact about the QUT search engine?

Contact the Digital Communication team to find out more about Search Engine Optimisation support at QUT.