[Web4lib] Customizable web search software?

[Petter Naess]

A related tool is neighborsearch...described here:
http://ircworld.blogspot.com/2004/11/neighborsearch.html or here
 http://www.researchbuzz.org/search_for_keywords_in_sets_of_links.shtml

The prerequisite is that the selection of "best online websites in the
field" are linked to from a specific page; that page might be an existing
portal, or an ad-hoc page consisting of the urls (or domains) that you
specify.



Petter Nass
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Tara Calishain
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:27 PM
To: Melissa Martinez; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Customizable web search software?


At 04:24 PM 8/9/2005, Melissa Martinez wrote:
>Hi,
>I work in a theological library where we would like to be able to provide
our users with a way to search some of the best online websites in this
field all at the same time.  The idea is for something similar to the way
that Google's advanced search allows you to search within a domain, but we
would want to search within several domains (even if all the program did was
tell Google to search term x on domain y then term x on domain z and then
compiled the results, that would be sufficient).  Does anyone know of a
program that does this?  Or, if there is an online web search that could be
customized this way and the settings saved with a password, that would be a
good start. Thanks in advance.

I made a tool last fall that will generate a bookmarklet or a JavaScript
search form to search the domains you specify. It uses Yahoo. You can try it
at
http://www.researchbuzz.org/new_yahoo_hack_searchroller_for_domain_searches.
shtml .

Tara




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