Create a better seach engine than Google

Create a better search engine than Google Michael Nolan http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/ http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/

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Taking the ‘Ooh’ out of Google

I won’t cover…

I won’t make you rich

Buy more servers

I am not Matt Cutts

This is all about…

Leave it to Google?

270,000 searches in 6 months

Types of search Site 122,338 Courses 141,276 News 3,925 Events 2,688

State of the Universities

57 using Google

7 using ht://Dig

The Short Tail • Ultraseek • Novell QuickFinder • Nutch • Egothor • Funnelback • AMI • Built into CMS • Bespoke

Don’t make the user think

Advanced Search – friend or foe?

Summaries

Always return something

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by Michael Nolan