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Agree - you'd still need evidence to convince the powers that be. To get some data to that end, maybe some snapshot usability observation where you sit down a handful of users at a computer (better yet, on a tablet/mobile device) and ask them to find the library's website (ensuring that the browser doesn't default to university.edu). Observe their strategy - do they go to university.edu and click around, or do they Google? Or do they use the university.edu search box (which is often a Google site search, playing by the same rules)? If your users are Googling, having that data in hand might provide an argument that your page should be Google-able and you should have some more visibility/control. Or you could set up some dummy sites and Google bomb yourself :). (Joking. Kind of.) -Lauren