BSCW helps you to submit queries to Web search engines. At present, BSCW supports the search services Google, AltaVista, Excite and Lycos.
BSCW will display the results returned by the search engine in a folder page as URL objects. By default, the list is sorted by the relevance ranking provided by the search engine. You may re-order the listing by selecting the respective View Sort menu entry.
You may | verify | the results delivered by the search engine, i.e. check their validity. This is useful since search engines often return hits which no longer exist.
Note: The Web search engines occasionally modify the format of their lists of ‘hits’. As a consequence, the BSCW server software may have to be modified to handle the new format. If you notice that a Web search via BSCW no longer produces the results expected, please ask your BSCW administrator to contact OrbiTeam for a software patch.