They appear to be using Ultraseek Server on our intranet, but ht://Dig on the website.

Kylie Baxter
Law School, University of Hull


At 16:20 18/07/2001 +0000, Brian Kelly wrote:
>The recent survey of search engines seems to imply that most
>institutions are happy with the facilities provided by ht://Dig.
>
>Is there any interest in more advanced types of searching, such as use
>of Knowledge Management software?
>
>Are institutions using ht://Dig on their Intranets, or is other software
>being used?
>
>Brian
>
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>Brian Kelly
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: 18 July 2001 09:24
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> > Subject: Latest survey of search engine software on UK HE Web
> > sites (Jun 2001)
> >
> >
> > An updated survey of search engine software on UK HE Web
> > sites is now available at:
> > http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/surveys/uk-he-search-engines/
>survey-jun
>2001.html#survey
>
>As can be seen from the summary
>(http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/surveys/uk-he-search-engines/survey-ju
>n2001.html#summary) ht://Dig is still by far the most popular search
>engine.   A new contender is the externally-hosted Google search
>facility.
>Note that Inkotomi have bought Ultraseek - the combined total has grown
>by one. The growth in ht://Dig, Google and Inktomi Ultraseek has been at
>the expense of eXcite, Harvest and some esoteric products. In addition
>some institutions which did not have a search facility now have one.
>
>A brief summary is given below.
>
>Software             Jun 2001   Jan 2001  Jan 2000
>ht://Dig               44          42       31
>Microsoft              18          18       15
>Ultraseek / Inktomi    12          11        8
>eXcite                  6           9       16
>Google                  6           0        0
>...
>Harvest                 1           3        7
>..
>None                    37         43       50
>
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Thanks
>
>Brian
>
>PS As always, please let me know of any errors in the survey, changes,
>etc.
>
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>Brian Kelly
>UKOLN
>University of Bath
>BATH
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