Create a better search engine than  Google

Michael Nolan

http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/

http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/

currybet dot net

currybet dot net

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

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Nutch•

Egothor

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Funnelback•

AMI

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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!

Creative Commons

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Any Questions

Michael Nolan

http://www.michaelnolan.co.uk/

http://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/webservices/