Yes! Vivisimo is great! However, unfortunately, since Yahoo's
acquisition of AltaVista and purging of the "near" connector, Vivisimo's
"near" may be in a coma.
Laura E. Ray, MA, MLS
Educational Programing Librarian
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
216-687-6880
Fax 216-687-5098
laura.ray@law.csuohio.edu
gary wrote:
>I think it's important to remember that large, general web engines like
>Google are not in the "research" business like we think of tools like LN,
>Factiva, etc. They are primarily marketing/advertising tools. This is by
>nature bad but it's important to realize where their revenue is coming
>from.
>
>Google limits "sponsored links" to 8 per page, as does Yahoo. The links
>your likely seeing are "regular" or what some call "organic results".
>While these spots are not paid for, a large industry called search engine
>optimization, reverse engineering the engines to try to get their clients
>results to the top of the organic results. Yes, the engines DON'T directly
>profit from this but the results you see are influenced by outside
>organizatons. Again, this is not a good or bad issue, is the way it works.
>Info pros need to deal with it.
>
>Just last week ResourceShelf (my site) linked to a WSJ about a contest
>demonstrating how easy it is to manipulate Google (and other web engines)
>results.
>http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_05_01_resourceshelf_archive.html#108515242400040032
>
>
>So, what should you do?
>
>1) Take Dru's advice and learn how to use general web engines is a more
>advanced manner. This can really help your precision.
>
>2) Realize that more than Google exists. Yahoo, Teoma, and Gigablast all
>offer unique databases. Btw, AllTheWeb and AltaVista now use the Yahoo
>database. I commented in yesterday's SF Chronicle.
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/26/BUG996RJLN24.DTL
>
>Also, Teoma continues to improve.
>
>
>3) Consider clustering your results with a tool like Vivisimo.
>http://www.vivisimo.com
>The company calls this idea "selective ignorance."
>http://www.vivisimo.com/docs/overlook.pdf
>
>4) I've talked about (for a long time) learning, collecting, and making use
>of specialized web databases or retrieval tools. Just like we've always
>done with traditional collection development.
>
>We discuss all of these issue everyday on ResourceShelf. We also do our
>best to list new tools.
>http://www.resourceshelf.com
>
>
>cheers,
>gary
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>Quoting "Edrington, Dru" <dru.edrington@puc.state.tx.us>:
>
>
>
>>I've noticed an increase in the number of irrelevant hits - I have to go
>>deeper into the pages to find better hits. Here's an interesting
>>article on the topic:
>> **Coming Soon - the Death of Search Engines?
>>http://www.llrx.com/features/deathsearchengine.htm
>>
>>Dru Edrington
>>Librarian IV
>>Public Utility Commission
>>Austin, TX
>>512-936-7075
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
>>Behalf Of Elisabeth McKechnie
>>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:57 AM
>>To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
>>Subject: Changes to Google
>>
>>
>>Is it just me, or has Google gone over to the Dark Side? When I have
>>searched Google recently (since the IPO hit the news), my Google results
>>pages start with a full page of sponsored links, in standard typeface. I
>>have to go to page 2 for the true search results. Now, the maddening
>>thing
>>is that the sponsored links page doesn't always show up, just sometimes.
>>Anyone have an explanation or comment?
>>
>>Elisabeth M. McKechnie, J.D., M.L.I.S.
>>Associate Librarian
>>UC Davis Law Library
>>(530) 752-3327
>>
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>>
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>
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>Gary D. Price, MLIS
>Librarian
>Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
>
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