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Slides from my BarCamp Liverpool session on better site search. Also given at IWMW 2009 at the University of Essex
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Create a better search engine than Google
Michael Nolan
http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/
http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/
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Taking the ‘Ooh’ out of Google
I won’t cover…
I won’t make you rich
Buy more servers
I am not Matt Cutts
This is all about…
Leave it to Google?
270,000 searches in 6 months
Types of search
Site 122,338
Courses 141,276
News 3,925
Events 2,688
State of the Universities
57 using Google
7 using ht://Dig
The Short Tail
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Ultraseek•
Novell QuickFinder
•
Nutch•
Egothor
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Funnelback•
AMI
•
Built into CMS•
Bespoke
Don’t make
the user think
Keele
Advanced Search – friend or foe?
Advanced Search – friend or foe?
Advanced Search – friend or foe?
Summaries
Summaries
Summaries
Summaries
Always return something
Auto suggest
Top searches
AdWords / KeyMatch
Avoid gimmicks
Look at what Martin Belam says!
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Any Questions
Michael Nolan
http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/
http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/