[Web4lib] Re: Google Search Appliance and OPACs

[J Crockett]

Advanced Google searches using the catalog's address as domain may result in
records from the catalog, but links can't be scanned for specific titles.
Right now those are often a generic page title from the catalog. 

Examples:

Denver Public Library - catalog.denverlibrary.org
Salt Lake County Library - ipac.slco.lib.ut.us
Danbury Public Library  - cat.danburylibrary.org
Richland Public Library - hip.richland.lib.sc.us

Joleen

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:28 PM
To: Peter Murray
Cc: Gem Stone-Logan; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Re: Google Search Appliance and OPACs

Has anyone tried just making a HUGE page of links and putting it somewhere
Google will find it? Almost all OPACs allow direct links to records, by ISBN
or something else. On a *few*-I've seen it on HiP-spidering this way causes
serious sessions issues. (LibraryThing made this mistake once.) But it might
be a way to get data into Google.

Tim

On 2/6/08, Peter Murray <peter at ohiolink.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 5, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Gem Stone-Logan wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, has anyone experimented with using the Google 
> > Search appliance for retrieving information from an ILS database?  
> > If so, what was your experience with it?  I'm thinking of an 
> > implementation where Google retrieves the results but then points 
> > the user to specific OPAC records.
>
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> There was some work done in the NELLCO consortium in advance of their 
> IMLS Leadership Grant.  I think Northeastern U was the lead 
> institution, but I don't have any further details.
>
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> Peter
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