I submitted my website to Search Glastonbury a while ago and I have tried searching for something that I know is in my website but Search Glastonbury does not show the page.
This means that the page has not been fully indexed by Search Glastonbury. There are several possible reasons for this:

• We may not have checked site. We usually do this within a week but it may take longer at busy times.
• Your site may not be eligible for Search Glastonbury. We only include sites whose content relates to Glastonbury and the surrounding area.
• You may be looking for something that is contained in a form. We don't index the content of forms. You may have placed your contact details only in a form. We recommend that you place your contact details so they are not enclosed in the form start and end tags even if you have a form for people to contact you.
• Your website may be written in such a way that it cannot be indexed by our spider. Examples of pages that cannot be indexed include:
  • pages to which the only link is not a regular "a href" HTML link - so Search Glastonbury may not index your site if you use JavaScript menus or an image map. We will index your site correctly if you have a backup method of menu selection for users who do not have JavaScript turned on.
  • pages to which the links contain a session identity. Our spider may not follow these links becase the session ID will not be valid when someone uses SearchGlastonbury to find your content.
  • framed pages where the content is stored under a domain other than that which users enter to get to your site.
  • the text you are looking for is only present in an image so it will not be found by our spider.
• You may have updated the page after it has been scanned by our spider. We normally index sites at least every two months so do look again after a while.

I notice that when I click a link to open a page in your search results, the page appears in the same browser window, so I can return to the results page by clicking BACK. However, some web sites do not allow the BACK button to work, so that I cannot return to my search results and have to start over.
Some webmasters fix their sites so you cannot leave them using the BACK button. We don't like such interference with your ability to move freely around the Web and we think it very antisocial to make life harder for you while trying to make you stay on the site you chose. We even believe that such behaviour discourages you from visiting their site again - the opposite effect from enouraging you to stay. You can write a complaint to webmasters who do this (use the contact details on their website), or if you are a PC user (using Windows or Linux with Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers), you can open the page in a new window by right clicking the link then selecting Open Page in New Window from the menu that appears. Apple Mac users may have a way of doing this also - check your browser options. We have considered making sites open in a new window, but have not done this so far because we think the clutter it creates on your computer is likely to annoy you.

Sometimes when I am searching for something quite simple, I get a large page in which I cannot easily see what I searched for.
The answer you are looking for is probably in the page, but you'll have to use the Find Text facility on your browser to locate it. This search is probably a character based search and it will find parts of words (unlike our search engine, which only locates whole words). If you can't find it, tell us - we want our results to be accurate.

Why have you chosen to moderate your search engine content? My experience suggests that your content will be restricted like that of other moderated search engines and that it will make the work of running the search engine very hard and slow down the submission of websites.
We have a strict policy to include content that relates to Glastonbury and the immediate surrounding area. This will overcome the frustration that we all experience when trying to locate information specific to an area using the global search engines. The global engines are great when trying to locate information that is not related to a particular area, and they quite often enable you to find information about a town or area by including the name of the town or area, but you will often get pages showing up from companies not located in the town or area who are trying to sell their services there. The most useless of these actually have no content at all relating to the locality you are interested in.

Searching for Phrases - When I search for Glastonbury Abbey the results include pages that have the words Glastonbury and Abbey separated from each other.
To search for the phrase "The Glastonbury Abbey", you must enclose the words in (double) quotes. The results page will then only show pages that contain that exact phrase.

When searching for details of accommodation, I am unsure what to look for - whether to search for B & B, B and B, B&B, Bed and Breakfast, Bed & Breakfast or Accommodation
Try all of these - one at a time. Your results will depend on how website owners have written their sites. These search words will work just like any other. Later we may have a facility for you to search for pages containing any one of your search words - or even a search that specifically looks for web pages offering accommodation - but our current search returns pages that contain all of your search words.