At 2:03 pm +0100 1/7/97, John Mackenzie Owen wrote:
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>> At 15:25 30/06/97 +0100, John Lindsay wrote:
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>> >> For anyone interested the article is available at :
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>> >> http://www.newscientist.com/keysites/networld/lost.html
>> >> Colin Goodwin SLA (Social Sciences Team)
>> <SNIP>
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>> The author of the NS article does seem to have a strange view of the
>> Library world. In this article he comments that Web spiders have problems
>> picking information out of the depths of Web sites. He then comments (I
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>Simon Tanner is of course right in saying that it does not make
>sense to include all items from opacs in search engines.
Could someone explain why "Simon Tanner is of course right"? It can't
simply be a question of scale, since Alta Vista (for example) already
indexes several orders of magnitude more text than OPACS are likely to
contain.
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