Best Bets Concept
1. Analyze your search logs to see what people are search for most
2. Build a custom index for these items
3. Integrate it with your website search to make your users happy!
Top Search Terms
1. citation builder
2. circulation
3. copyright
4. refworks
5. web of science
6. jstor
Search Stats
• Top 100 search queries account for 30.2% of all searches
• Top 50 search queries account for 26.3% of all searches
Top 20 search queries =
21.8% of all searches
Best Bets at NCSU
• Quick Search module focused on high demand resources
• 50 total Best Bets
• Mix of• Popular databases (‘Web of Science’)• Services (‘Course Reserves’)• Library information (‘Library Hours’)
Key Benefits
• Force popular resources to the top of search results
• Best Bets for items that aren’t included in your Web search crawl
• Custom <keywords> field enables matching on misspellings or synonyms (e.g. Lexus Nexus)
• Custom description displays