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 Effective Internet Search: Search Help
Discussion Topics
One purpose of this website is to stimulate
discussion, perhaps more academic, on search engines and
Internet searching. In this way, with your help, we can develop
and elaborate on some of our book materials.
We encourage you to submit any relevant topic
using our Contact
Us form.
To get the ball rolling, here are two
articles for your consideration and comment.
Theory of Thesaurus Relationships
(by Ed Baylin)
 Theory
of Thesaurus Relationships is
simply a draft version, meant to collect feedback from any
"wayward academic" or the like, who might be
interested in commenting. I look forward to hearing from you!
Search Engine Evolution
(by Darlene Canning)
Search Engine Evolution
is a more academic discussion of the indexing of files based
on search engine metadata. It is compared to
state-of-the-art practices for reference librarians and
other information specialists. This paper features
intelligent discussion and assessment of futuristic
developments, in particular, the "semantic web," including
complex issues like:
- The incorporation of standardized metadata into
webpages. This kind of thing is still in the embryonic
stage, led by the Dublin Core (dublincore.org/documents/dces/),
but should eventually grow to include domain-specific ontologies
and accompanying vocabularies, based on metadata development
standards such as the RDF (Resource Description Framework, www.w3.org/RDF/).
Note: In this paper, the standard 15 Dublin Core
metadata fields are mapped against those provided by our
featured search engines.
- More effective data-mining techniques for the
so-called "invisible-deep web."
- The potential to combine the best and most unique
functionalities from numerous search engines.
What do you think?
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