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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 --------------------------------------- Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath BATH BA2 7AY Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ Phone: 01225 38 3943