[WEB4LIB] Re: A bit about search engines, was Strange

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

Northernlight.com might have even more options in the advanced search.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Even Flood <even.flood at ub.ntnu.no>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: A bit about search engines, was Strange


> Hanan!
> 
> At 20:51 17.11.99 +0200, Hanan Cohen wrote:
> 
> >It's funny how people who give seminars learn the wrong lessons from
> >their own experience.
> >
> >Quit using Alatavista. That's what I say. 
> >Use Google. 
> >Be patriotic, use Alltheweb, a Norwegian and excellent search site.
> >
> >Good luck
> >
> 
> 
> Well, those search sites have their good points, but also
> bad ones. They are very limitied in search options, for
> example neither Google nor Alltheweb have truncation
> (unless they have changed the last weeks), nor do they
> have possibilities of field searching in URL and domain.
> Especially truncation is a pet subject of mine, I find
> it incredibly useful and give low marks to engines that
> omits it.
> 
> All in all, AltaVista offers the best choice in search
> options. In my seminars I usually give special attention
> to my three favourites, AltaVista, Google and NorthernLight.
> AltaVista for search options, Google for linking and 
> ranking the results and NorthernLight for the special
> collection they have in addition to the web and for the
> sorting of results into folders which on some searches
> I have done really gave extraordinary results. 
> One search I did in Nlight was for "baroque music"
> and the result was sorted into  seperate folders for each
> of the composers.  How do they *do* that?
> 
> Even
> 
> 
> Even Flood,  Senior Research Librarian               
> RBT/Norwegian DIANE Center, 
> University Library of Trondheim, 
> N 7491 Trondheim, Norway. 
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