About UWhub
- About UWhub
- UWhub is a search engine for content related to the University of Waterloo. A project by Michael Fagan, it is still under construction.
- Web Search Features
- Most features should be apparent implicitly. One that is not is special content that is displayed above search results. This includes searches for peoples names (needs first and last), course codes (e.g. econ, math 127), weather, map, housing-related terms such as sublet, account pages, varsity teams, radio stations, ISBNs, email addresses, phone numbers, usenet newsgroups, and others. most people search features are currently disabled
- People Search Features
- Everything is case insensitive (capitals don’t matter). Search for names, UW usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, office numbers, and/or URLs (must be exact). Names do not have to be full (eg. Jenna, John S, D Jones). Office number searching is easy (eg. ESC 130); MC 3 finds all people on the third floor of the math building. You can also combine parts: john nh finds all the Johns in Needle’s Hall. in is a shortcut (instead of using the advanced search), such as Jason in science.
- Many Ways to get to UWhub
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- Search plugin: install (for Firefox and related browsers)
- Quick Search with http://uwhub.ca/?q=%s (for Firefox and related browsers)
- Add to your Google Deskbar with http://uwhub.ca/?q={1}
- Get the results in OpenSearch format
- Force search boxes on uwaterloo.ca to use UWhub with this Greasemonkey script
- Add a UWhub search button to Google, Yahoo!, and other search engines with this Greasemonkey script
- Google Homepage module
- Search on YubNub with the command uw
- How it Works
- Currently UWhub makes use of data from Yahoo! and then processes them before display, in various ways. Data from UWdir is also used. It can display RSS/Atom feeds using Magpie, including those from Google Groups. UWhub also has its own data to enhance the third-party data.
- Feedback and Suggestions
- Please send all feedback, suggestions, and bug reports to uwhub.admin AT gmail.com.
- Copyright
- © Michael Fagan 2005-2006.
- Disclaimer
- UWhub and its creator are not responsible for the content viewable on it and findable with it. Some content may be inappropriate.