[Web4lib] Google study

[Randy Norwood]

Texas Tech Univ has used the GSA for a couple of years, and from my
perspective as a web site manager, it's worked reasonably well.

The main technical issue for me as an user is that the campus IT people have
disabled indexing of business document formats other than PDF. The reason
given was that the appliance's nightly crawl was significantly slowed down
when it was set to crawl and index all of the document formats, and it
started eating into bandwidth in early part of the next business day. I'm
not sure whether campus IT has done any formal studies of this, but I'm sure
they'd be willing to discuss it with you. My impression is that this problem
is not a limitation of the appliance, but rather the impact of campus-wide
bandwidth limits on the speed of its crawling.


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Randy Norwood
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Texas Tech University Libraries
Office: 806-742-2238  x236
Fax: 806-742-8669
E-mail: randy.norwood at ttu.edu



 


On 07/12/05 10:42 AM, "Mary Lou Cumberpatch" <Mary.Lou.Cumberpatch at noaa.gov>
wrote:

> Hi: Several components within our agency have purchased the Google
> search appliance for their public web sites.
> I'd like to do a study on how well Google performs as the search engine
> for these public web sites.
> 
> To get started, I"m compiling a list of criteria by which to judge the
> Google search applicane's performance as the search engine for these
> public web sites. If anyone has done such studies of their
> organization's search engine (Google or not), I'd be interested in
> seeing your criteria.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mary Lou 
> 
> Mary Lou Cumberpatch
> Reference Librarian
> NOAA Central Library
> 1315 East-West Highway
> Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
> Mary.Lou.Cumberpatch at noaa.gov
> 301-713-2600 Ext. 129
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