Full-text searching of several sites (Question)

[Jian Liu]

Harvest will do it. Excite may work too, but I haven't tried.

Jian
Indiana University Libraries

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> Hello there!
> 
> Has anyone attempted to set up full-text searching of about 
> 20 or 25 sites, none of which are search engines themselves?
> These could be universities, businesses, orgs, what have you.
> 
> I have someone who wants to be able to do full-text searching of 
> 20 sites and ONLY those 20 sites retrieving relevant information
> all at once.  He'd like to set up something locally that will
> let him do the searching.  
> 
> Information on commercial "extraction services" would also be
> welcome, but this fellow is a real "do-it-yourselfer".  
> 
> If you can give me any pointers, tips, ideas, comments, general
> information on either of the above, it would be most appreciated!
> 
> I'll summarize for the list...
> 
> thanks!
> - Jen McLeod
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> Jennifer E. McLeod
> University of Maine Fogler Library
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> http://libinfo.ume.maine.edu/Staff/mcleod.html <---  Staff page
> http://libinfo.ume.maine.edu/~mcleodj/  <--- Personal page
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