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+This project runs the WDN search results engine.
+
+Three panels of results are shown, local site results, global results,
+and peoplefinder results.
+
+Querystring parameters:
+    q   The search term
+    u   Referring UNL template based site
+    cx  Google Custom Search engine to use for local site results