Hi Simon
I carry out a survey of search engines used in UK HEIs - see
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/surveys/uk-he-search-engines/
The safe option is ht://Dig, which has been the most widely used
search engine since I first started carrying out the surveys.
The externally-hosted Google solution is gaining in popularity.
The licensed Inktomi solution is also growing in popularity.
One trend that has started recently is insttiution providing a link
to more than one search engine - typically ht://Dig and Google.
There are, of course, dangers in following the herd - we wouldn't
have moved on from Gopher if some institutions had not chosen the risky
solution of WWW in the early 1990s.
Brian
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Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Managing an institutional web site
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simon Brookes
> Sent: 15 November 2002 10:29
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> Subject: Search Engines
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am looking at different search engines for our website.
> Can anyone recommend a good product? We need a search engine
> that is extremely configurable and that can search many
> different resource types (both on our own servers and
> potentially on external servers).
>
> Any comments on this broad subject are welcomed.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Simon
>
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