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Now available on the Government of Canada's Treasury Board of Canada, Secretariat - Information Management Resource Centre Guidelines for Search Services on Web Sites Government On-Line Metadata Working Group

This document is intended for content producers, system administrators and business managers. It attempts to document best practices for managing search engines, recognizing that the quality of the search result depends on a number of factors.





- 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...

- National Bibliography Of U.s. Government Publications
GPO is seeking comments on The National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications: Initial Planning Statement, June 18, 2004, on GPO Access. To fulfill its statutory mission under 44 U.S.C. Secs. 1710-1711, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)...

- 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...

- Gils
Just received this notice about the Government Information Locator Service:Through the efforts of several people, we now have a draft Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file for the GILS search service, available for review.This draft only defines...



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