Library Cataloging
Here is an interesting article comparing search engines and OPACs. Before the comparison, there is much discussion of the purpose of the catalog and how it is achieved. "On the Theory of Library Catalogs and Search Engines" by B. Eversberg.
- Google, Yahoo And Msn Agree On The Canonical Link Tag
Google, Yahoo and MSN Agree on the Canonical Link Tag. Nice and simple.The latest news coming from the the three major search engines is a major improvement to how Websites are indexed by search engines. The idea of the Canonical Link Tag is that a website...
- Viewzi
Viewzi is a new search tool, a search mash-up (smash?). They have made it possible to create different views and parameters for a search. On search brings up screens for photos, videos, 4 search engines combined, etc. Interesting approach, they will have...
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- Blogging The Catalog
Library 2.0 in the Real World by Jenny Levine points to some very interesting work.The prototype is built on the WordPress open source, blogging platform, which gives it some very interesting features. For example, every record in the catalog gets its...
- Metadata For Web Pages
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog asked if I knew of any search engines that used Dublin Core metadata. The answer is yes and no. The regular search engines we all use can not make use of it, or very limited use. Search Engine Watch has details on how...
Library Cataloging
Cataloging & Search Engines
Here is an interesting article comparing search engines and OPACs. Before the comparison, there is much discussion of the purpose of the catalog and how it is achieved. "On the Theory of Library Catalogs and Search Engines" by B. Eversberg.
- Google, Yahoo And Msn Agree On The Canonical Link Tag
Google, Yahoo and MSN Agree on the Canonical Link Tag. Nice and simple.The latest news coming from the the three major search engines is a major improvement to how Websites are indexed by search engines. The idea of the Canonical Link Tag is that a website...
- Viewzi
Viewzi is a new search tool, a search mash-up (smash?). They have made it possible to create different views and parameters for a search. On search brings up screens for photos, videos, 4 search engines combined, etc. Interesting approach, they will have...
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- Blogging The Catalog
Library 2.0 in the Real World by Jenny Levine points to some very interesting work.The prototype is built on the WordPress open source, blogging platform, which gives it some very interesting features. For example, every record in the catalog gets its...
- Metadata For Web Pages
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog asked if I knew of any search engines that used Dublin Core metadata. The answer is yes and no. The regular search engines we all use can not make use of it, or very limited use. Search Engine Watch has details on how...