Ouzi Semantic Web Search Since 1838

Ouzi howtos for webmasters

Ouzi is a Universal Tags and Categories Manager based on semantic proximity, with built-in Web search functionalities.

Webmasters can make Ouzi add their pages and their feeds to its search results and thematical pages.

Ouzi is also designed to provide an automated tags and categories environment to your site. Configuration is available to those who have a Ouzi account.

Add your page manually

Here you can instantly add your pages and RSS feeds one by one.
Page URI
And / Or
RSS feed URI

Ouzi is not a web spider and won't follow the links on your page, for this Google and Yahoo! will do the job fine.

To add Ouzi support for your whole site and let Ouzi crawl all your pages, you may call it directly from your pages.

Automatically adding your pages

Some HTML to index your Web documents dynamically

To ensure your page is visited by Ouzi, just add this line somewhere in your code :

<a href="http://www.ouzi.org/" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search"><img alt="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" src="http://www.ouzi.org/ouzi.png" border="0" /></a>

That's it ! Reload your page now.

You should get a small 30x15 Ouzi logo Ouzi Semantic Web Search ; Your document is now indexed.

[We don't provide a 1px transparent image any more, as this may be considered as a deceptive technique.]

Just don't forget to put this html on every page you'd like to see indexed.

Tips

This is not mandatory, but to help Ouzi locate the main content of your page, you can add these HTML comments around every important text block (you will get more links and more accuracy on Ouzi by doing this) :

<!-- Start Ouzi -->
This is your relevant content.
<!-- End Ouzi -->
(You can do this more than once.)

And, to help Ouzi understand your site as a whole, you can modify the HTML code a bit :

<a href="http://www.ouzi.org/" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search"><img alt="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" src="http://www.ouzi.org/ouzi.png?site=http://[ your site root directory ]" border="0" /></a>

This identifies the "site" you've defined as the root directory of the indexed Web page.

Your Ouzi Account

Multiple accounts with a same E-mail are allowed (to handle various websites).

E-mail
Password
Lost your password ?

Ouzi API : Add Ouzi Tags and Semantic Search to your site

Ouzi has advanced navigation features that you can use on your pages, by displaying related links :

A link to Web content related to yours

You can add a link on your page that will lead to content and links to other Web documents semantically close to yours. Just copy & paste this one, or modify it.

<a href="http://www.ouzi.org/similar.htm" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search">More about this...</a>

Let's try it : Take it Ouzi

Query Ouzi from a distant server and get XML results

Ouzi provides you with XML / RSS 2.0 feeds that you can import from your server and include into your own applications. These feeds contain related resources (tags & keywords, Web pages, RSS feeds, entire Web sites etc...) Format : valid RSS 2.0

Let's try it : XML Keyword Generator

Javascript

Just add this line to your code between <head> and </head> :

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ouzi.org/ouzi.js"></script>

The script you called in the head of your page creates an object called 'ouzi'.

You can play with it the way you want.

For example, you can try putting this where you want inside your page:
<script type="text/javascript">ouzi.display(ouzi.TagsFromCurrentPageString);</script>

Manipulating data isn't difficult, there are some available arrays like :

Available strings are (for displaying links) :

Have fun !

Server Side (PHP, ASP ...)

If you want to have googlebot and his friends follow these links to your pages, you might want to use a server-side solution though.

Calling Ouzi server-side is often a better solution than doing a Javascript call, just because it's faster and more reliable.

The examples are written in PHP but there are many others ways to do this, with any server-side scripting language, if you know how to access a remote file.

The use of the 'readfile' function ensures there is no script execution on your server.

To add a specified tagcloud or link-box in your page, just add the following code where you want the item to be displayed (you'll need to have 'allow_url_fopen' enabled) :

<?php
readfile ( "http://www.ouzi.org/ouzi?q=".urlencode($_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"]."?".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"])."&action=[ choose a specific action from the list below ]&ouzi-tag=".urlencode($_GET["ouzi-tag"]) );
?>

Where 'action' can be one of the following :

To use the advanced features if you have a Ouzi account, you may add your user id and the root directory of the site you're working on, just like this :

<?php
readfile ( "http://www.ouzi.org/ouzi?q=".urlencode($_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"]."?".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"])."&action=[ choose a specific action from the list ]&ouzi-tag=".urlencode($_GET["ouzi-tag"])."&id=99999&site=[ your site root directory ]
);
?>

Doing the job server-side ensures that links are followed by spiders, that your web site is well indexed, and that Ouzi Tags & Categories are available to users with Javascript disabled.

There is just one important thing you need to know if you have URL Rewriting rules active on your server : in this case, when you invoque the 1px image, you may also specify a not rewrited address for your document, otherwise you may slow down the engine and get unexpected stuff.

That's very easy to do :

<a href="http://www.ouzi.org/" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" style="margin:0;"><img alt="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" title="Ouzi Semantic Web Search" src="http://www.ouzi.org/ouzi.png?q=<? echo urlencode($_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"]."?".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]); ?>" border="0" height="1" width="1" style="margin:0;border:none;height:1px;width:1px;" /></a>

(The examples are written in PHP but there are many others ways to do this, using any server-side scripting language like ASP, Python ...)

Tips for both methods

The best way is to try some of the features.

If you want to add style information, CSS and manage other stuff, you may open an account and add your user id to your script.

That's it ! Let's look at some examples to see this in action.

Online examples

Javascript

PHP and other server side languages

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