selecting a search engine for a library web site

[Platt, Nina]

I did some research when we were looking for a search engine for
the Minnesota Appellate Court Archive site
(http://www.courts.state.mn.us/library/archive/).  The research
resulted in a paper which was published in the Piper Letter at
http://www.piperinfo.com/pl03/search.html (that's PL03 in lower-case).

It includes descriptions and comparisions of Web Search Engine Descriptions

        Basis Webserver
        Excerpt
        Excite
        Folio
        freeWAIS-sf
        Frontpage
        Fulcrum
        Glimpse
        ht://Dig
        Ice
        Isearch
        PL Web
        Swish
        TEAMate
        WebFind/WebIndex (WebSite)

It's from November of 1996 but still of some value, I think.  Hope it helps.

Nina Platt, Librarian
Minnesota Office of the Attorney General
Phone: 612-215-1398
E-mail: nina.platt at state.mn.us


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From: Elizabeth L. Blakely
To: web4lib at library.berkeley.edu
Subject: selecting a search engine for a library web site
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 1997 9:39AM


I am leading efforts to select a new engine for our organizations web
site.  JEFFLINE [URL:jeffline.tju.edu] currently uses WAIS.  I have
checked the Web4Lib archives and found little on selecting a search
engine, most of the materials I found were evaluating search engines such
as LYCOS, InfoSeek, etc.

I have a found a few good articles via an online search but would
appreciate any help (first-hand experience or good web or print resources.

Thank you

 
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