Search services: analytical form
Header
Service name:
Last update of this description:
Description written by:
General information
Type of service (according to Traugott Koch's typology):
Access:(free, commercial)
Volume:
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URLs known:
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Number of documents indexed:
Publisher:
URL for Top-level Page:
Mirror sites:
URL for the organization:
History:
Update frequency of the whole database:
Document rating, reviews, "added value" included:
Registration needed:
Costs:
Performance:
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Response time:
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Time outs:
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Image download time:
Harvesting
Harvesting software:
Robot (type; follows robot exclusion standard?):
Method:
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Human
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Automatic
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User registration
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User deletable
Depth first
Breadth first
Type coverage:
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WWW:
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gopher:
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WAIS:
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ftp:
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telnet (OPACs):
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UseNet News:
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Listserv:
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IRC:
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Other databases (numeric, commercial):
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Multimedia products (images, movie, sounds):
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Other types:
Geographic coverage:
Subject coverage (General or specialized content):
Update frequency for visiting the same sites/documents again:
Number of dead links:
Indexing
Indexing software:
What is indexed:
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Extracted information, fields indexed:
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Titles:
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Headings:
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Header information (included metainformation):
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File information (size, date)
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Links (URLs):
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The anchor text of links:
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Other HTML tags:
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Summary/excerpts (how generated):
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Full text:
What is not indexed:
Separate metainformation provided by the search service:
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Human cataloguing and indexing:
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Human summary/abstract, excerpt, review:
Retrieval system:
Search software:
Type of retrieval system:
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Boolean (exact match)
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Best match
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Combination
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Vector retrieval
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nonverbal (citation indexing)
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Other
Query structures and operations supported
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Natural language:
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Word list (no Boolean operators associated):
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Boolean query:
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Boolean operators:
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AND
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OR
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NOT
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Nesting (parentheses supported)
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Restrictions:
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mixing of operators
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number of search keys
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distance in number of words
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distance in text structure
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bound phrases
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Other:
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Ranking algorithm:
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ranking factors:
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calculation of scores:
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User weighted words:
Search terms:
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Truncation:
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Not supported
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Automatic
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stemming algorithm (morfological)
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add wildcard (mechanical)
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left (mechanical)
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right (mechanical)
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Manual
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What is the default and is it user changeable?
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String match features:
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regular expressions
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internal masking
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case sensitive specify
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others
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Any limits for a search term (character sets supported)
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Any limits for the size of a result set:
WHAT IS SEARCHABLE:
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Possibility to specify source types:
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System searches as default:
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URL:
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Title, headings:
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Keywords:
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Summary:
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Fulltext:
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cited URL, anchor text:
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others
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User selectable search fields:
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URL:
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Title, headings:
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keywords:
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Summary:
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Fulltext:
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cited URL, anchor text:
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others:
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Other search options:
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Stopword list
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Uses the system a stopword list?
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How is the stopword list constructed? (e.g. words exceeding a given absolut
frequency are automatically put into the stopword list)
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Can the stopword list be sidestepped in a search? (e.g. in a phrase search)
SEARCH IMPROVEMENT:
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Concept search:
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Query expansion:
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Controlled Vocabulary, thesauri:
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Relevance feedback, find similar:
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Improve your search support or form:
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Navigation and graphical features:
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Other features:
RESULT DISPLAY:
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Result set information:
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total
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subsets
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Possible to choose number of displayed hits?:
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Is the number of hits displayed limited by the service?:
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What can be displayed:
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URL:
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Hotlink to original document:
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Title, headings:
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Keywords:
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Summary:
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Fulltext:
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cited URL, anchor text:
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Show hits in context:
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Highlight hits:
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document size:
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document last updated:
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document last visited:
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Pre-defined display formats:
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Other display options:
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Information about relevance scores:
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Score displayed?:
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Matching terms:
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Sorting:
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URL-based:
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others (size, number of links):
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Afterprocessing of the result by the service:
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duplicate check:
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link check:
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Other display options:
Browsing structure (Subject catalogue), Organization of the result:
Browsing structure integrated with index?:
User interface
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General description of interface:
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Clarity of interface:
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Clarity of search page or index:
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Text-Only support:
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HTML Forms support:
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URL for Forms Search Page:
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Query input form:
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Optional forms for input:
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simple but limited:
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structured:
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free not limited:
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other supported:
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Non-Forms support:
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URL for Non-Forms Search Page:
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Adaptations to special browsers (Netscape, lynx):
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Online Help?
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URL for FAQ Page:
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URL for Help Page:
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Navigation Aids:
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Search Tutorials:
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Sample Searches:
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Server Load Indicators:
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What's New page:
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What's Popular page:
Documentation
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Manual:
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Literature:
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Reviews:
URL for Copyright/Legal Page:
URL for Subscription Page:
URL for Creator's Page:
Our evaluation of the service
(Summary. strong points, weaknesses, criticism, recommendations to users
etc.)
Traugott Koch (Traugott.Koch@ub2.lu.se)
Anna Brümmer, anna@munin.ub2.lu.se
Lotta Åstrand, lotta@munin.ub2.lu.se
Kai Halttunen, likaha@uta.fi
Eero Sormunen, lieeso@uta.fi
Anne Suoniemi, tmansu@uta.fi
Last update: 96-06-03