Project Brief

There is a requirement to review the University search tools, and search strategy because a range of consultation and research activities have revealed issues with the current search functionality and inappropriate results are often delivered. Full details of the research completed are later in this document. The current solution is relying on a free offering from Google which was set up by Communications and Marketing a number of years ago.

This proposal is for a project to investigate and propose an alternative search engine solution (and identify the on-going management requirements) which can be used across all areas of the University website and a framework within which it is managed – both technically and editorially. This will involve business analysis for the view of how the future search could be managed within each of the business units. It is expected that this would involve a short study of how another similar organisation manages search.