In our experience, Google indexes our site every few days. The main
disadvantage of it is that it because it's external, it doesn't have
access to UoN-only pages, so they're not indexed.
It is extremely accurate though, and fast.
Kat
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On Wed, 15 May 2002, Brian Kelly wrote:
| I will shortly be updating my survey of search engines used in UK
| Universities - see
| http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/surveys/uk-he-search-engines/
|
| Thanks to everyone who has emailed me with updates recently. If you
| haven't done so, please check the entries and let me know of any
| changes.
|
| ht://Dig is still the most popular, followed by a Microsoft solution (no
| changes there for a while. In third place now is Google, which was not
| available when the survey was initially carried out (and is, of course,
| an externally hosted solution, with all of the implications that that
| raises).
|
| A couple of people expressed concern at not knowing the indexing
| frequency of Google and of the difficulties in getting any response from
| them. Possibly as there are a number of Universities using Google,
| including several large ones:
|
| Bristol - Derby - Glasgow School of Art - Newport - Lampeter - Lancaster
| - Leeds - Manchester Business School - Nottingham - Reading (also uses
| ht://Dig) - Royal Veterinary College - South Bank - St Mark and St John
| - Warwick (also uses ht://Dig)
|
| It might be worth seeing if we can approach them en masse.
|
| Another interesting tactic which one person mentioned was negotiating a
| discount for a licensed package by threatening to move to a free
| solution such as ht://Dig. Others may be interested in this approach.
|
| Brian
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| Brian Kelly
| UK Web Focus
| UKOLN
| University of Bath
| BATH
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