search engine comparison

[Elisabeth Roche]

Might be new at it but doesn't sound confused to me:-))

I am sending you my grant research results from earlier this year, have had
to search all through my hd and floppies to get it together for you.

But it was not so hard before the government decided to change things, i did
better in 1994 than 1995, early 1995 was okay then found difficultly as the
sites that were gopher sites etc were broken down and not replaced.

Shades of newts...:))  [hey i know he talks the talk, I'm just looking at
what seems to have happened. 

Did you find what you needed using gopher and ftp and veronica or does it
just seem easier to use an index search (this is now, that was then) and
take what you find?]

This is my research I am trying to do, migration of internet files and
changes in protocols (ftp. http etc) for file transfer and access and how
this has changed between july 1994 and now.

Any ideas for help on this project?
I'll give you credit!:))

Anyone else already doing this and want my research?
I think it is important, but could be wrong.:))


Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com
serendipity RULES!




At 07:38 PM 2/18/96 -0800, Karen G. Schneider wrote:
>>In performing a side by side comparison of a single directory and
>>limiting the index to only .html files I found swish returned about 12%
>>fewer hits than WAISQ. I first noticed this on a larger scale across our
>>whole website, but wanted to control the index to make sure I wasn't
>>comparing apples and oranges.
>>Has anyone else had similar or differing results when swish is compared
>>to wais or glimpse?
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>>                        John Gladstone /jgladsto at nal.usda.gov
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>Wouldn't we also need more information, such as how you had configured the
>two search engines?  I'm very new at this stuff,but I'm sitting here
>editing config.h right now (for swish) and have noted that there is
>considerable flexibiilty in how you set stopwords, length of allowable
>words, etc.
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>Cybrarian * Columnist, American Libraries, Internet Law Researcher
>Author, The Internet Access Cookbook (e-mail Neal-Schuman at icm.com)
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