[WEB4LIB] Re: Cross-database search tools

[Matt Theobald]

Brightplanet.com is another noteworthy product.

-Matt


At 8/23/01 09:06 AM, Houston Louise wrote:
>Roy,
>I would also be interested in results of your enquiry.  Will you be posting
>them to the list?
>
>Louise Houston
>Library Systems Coordinator, Supreme Court of Canada
>613-947-0628
>houstonl at scc-csc.gc.ca
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Hellman [mailto:eric at openly.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:07 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Cross-database search tools
>
>
>At 10:02 AM -0700 8/22/01, Roy Tennant wrote:
> >I am trying to survey any cross-database search tools that are
> >presently in production. These are applications that take one search
> >query, send it out to multiple databases and return organized
> >results (not necessarily de-duped) to the user. Some examples:
>
>I'd also be interested in hearing user reaction on services like this.
>
>There are of course a number of commercial players in this field.
>
>Webfeat http://www.webfeat.org/  is an interesting approach.
>
>Muse Global http://www.museglobal.com/  Not sure if this is in production.
>
>VDX/ZPORTAL    from fretwell-downing
>http://www.fdgroup.com/fdi/vdx/about.html another interesting
>approach.
>
>And I think you'll see more, better, soon. I've seen things in
>research labs that may blow these away. Then again, maybe not.
>
>Eric
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