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Good
question! If you have serious content, a site or intranet search
engine will allow your visitors to jump directly to the topic
they want. More...
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The
guide will help you learn more
about site searching. Or try the
remote search services on this site.
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Includes
articles and books providing general
site search information, and those with more specific product reviews.
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Alphabetical
List or divided by platform: Java,
Mac, Perl,
Unix, and Windows;
also Remote Search Hosting Services,
Code Libraries, and Open
Source Search Engines |
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Multimedia
Search, Faceted Metadata
Search, PDF and Web Site Search,
Intranets and EIPs, XML and Search, Information Architecture,
Web Indexing Robot Spiders, and
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This
site provides information, news and advice about web site searching
technology. It is maintained by Avi Rappoport, associate AJ Summers
and various Search Tools Consulting
interns as a service to the Web community. We welcome your comments
and suggestions: just contact us.
We are also available for search tools needs analysis, competitive
analysis, search tools installation and more: for information see
the Consulting page , use our
contact form or send
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Disclosure:
Search Tools Consulting presents the SearchTools.com site as a free
service to the web development community and is not sponsored by
any advertisers. Search Tools Consulting also provides analysis
and information to sites and institutions installing search engines,
and to some search engine developers. We do not give them site visitor
or survey personal information or allow our relationships with any
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The
SearchTools
blog on LiveJournal provides an opportunity for you to tell
me what you think about enterprise search tools for web sites and
intranets, and about the SearchTools.com web site. You do not have
to have an account to post, you can reply anonymously. All comments
are screened, so there will be no blog spam.
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For more news about search engines, see the
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Current Search Tools News
A First Taxonomy of Search Log Junk
Search logs contain a lot of weird things, and some of them can have a significant effect on search log analysis. Having looked at tens of thousand lines of search log entries, I offer this first attempt at defining some of the weirdest and least useful kinds of log entry, which I call "Search Log Junk". Here are the types of junk that I've seen most frequently: empty queries, repeat queries, robot crawlers, server hacks, search field/guestbook spam, and internal test queries. (May, 2008) More...
February - April, 2008: updates to the site suspended due to injury
For more news about search engines, see the
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