[Sigia-l] integrated catalogues?

[Eric Scheid]

On 26/10/05 1:05 AM, "Skot Nelson" <skot at penguinstorm.com> wrote:

> sure. that's kind of the point right? It's out there. I know it's out
> there. You know it's out there. Google knows it's out there.

Well, my point was that there are a number of pages, all with the one answer
you are looking for, but mostly with different wordings.

These means you could search for the phrase "oil level" and find your answer
on one page, or search for the phrase "level of oil" and find your answer on
some other page, or search for some other phrase that comes to mind ... and
you'll find your answer, probably on yet a different page again.

The world wide web has massive redundancies in content, and that is why
google, yahoo, et al manage to work.

I dare say that library catalogues don't contain massive redundancies of
content, nor would (should?) intranets, and so keyword searching don't work
so well in those environments.

The example I gave of a difficult search has similar characteristics. There
are probably two pages in all of the google index with the answer I want,
and sadly the only keywords I have are extremely common words.

Meanwhile, in another search engine, I enter Mike Jay into the Name field,
"rethink" into the company field, select "Australia" as the location, and
select the appropriate industry from some popup ... and hey, there he is.

Has anyone found his website via google yet? Ziya?

e.