[Web4lib] Another Google question

[Steven C. Perkins]

Bernie:

I have done the same kind of search in Google for a specific URL and get 
about 440 results.  When I search for the document title, I get over 750 
results.  About 50 of those are to an older location URL, but the others do 
seem to be to the first URL searched on.

I have done the same search in MSN and Yahoo with similar differences.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins
Coordinator of Reference Services
U of Houston MD Anderson Library



At 04:22 PM 7/5/2005, you wrote:
>Here's another thing with Google that I don't get...
>
>Over the weekend I used the Page-Specific Search on the Advanced Search
>page to find pages that link to the page:
>http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/e-ref.html. I got five results.
>
>Then I did a Google search for the name of the document associated with
>that URL. I got quite a few results ("about 271"), but only went through
>the first 50. Twenty percent of those results (10 of 50) had live links
>imbedded in the corresponding documents matching the URL above.
>
>To the best of my knowledge, none of these ten documents were included
>in the five results from the "find pages that link to the page" search
>off of the advanced search page.
>
>I'm probably missing something obvious, but why would a "link to" search
>come up with five documents, while the second search came up with ten
>documents with the same URL as a live link, with little or no overlap
>between the two result sets?
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Information Systems Consultant
>Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
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