[WEB4LIB] search engine capable of highlighting

[Samuel Mcdonald]

The Altavista Discovery ( personal search engine product) does some text
highlighting. I started messing with it in order to
cope with my own files.  It will index your drive etc.  See their page
at: http://discovery.altavista.com/

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Barbara Stewart wrote:

> I am interested in knowing whether a search engine exists that highlights
> keywords in the document that it is searching. I know that Google
> highlights the key words in a short abstract, and this is useful, but it
> is very time intensive to visually search through long documents for your
> particular keyword requested. I took part in a study about a year ago
> where keywords of requested texts were color coded separately in the text
> - and found this incredibly useful. For example, if you were searching for
> +antique +bottles +"new england", when you went to the text retrieved,
> +antique would appear highlighted in red, +bottles would appear
> highlighted in green, and +"new england" would appear in yellow.
> Not only was this useful to judge relevancy of a document almost
> immediately, it saved much time because you could see'groupings' at a
> glance. So if you were more interested in the +bottles aspect of things,
> you would just search for documents with lots of green highlights, and
> skip over those documents that were predominantly yellow highlighted. Does
> this exist anywhere currently?
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Barbara Stewart                             
> Latin American Cataloger                    
> University of Massachusetts Amherst         
> Amherst, MA 01003                           
> stew at library.umass.edu                      
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