Alta Vista Vs. Lycos |
Tracey Stanley presents the results of a detailed comparison of the two main search engines of today, Lycos and Alta Vista.
issue2 March 1996 |
cataloguing, database, foi, hypertext, search technology, software, standards, url |
Developing a Virtual Research Environment in a Portal Framework: The EVIE Project |
Tracey Stanley provides an overview of the EVIE Project at the University of Leeds which was funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments Programme.
issue51 April 2007 |
accessibility, archives, authentication, blog, british library, cataloguing, content management, curation, data, data set, database, digital preservation, dissemination, e-framework, framework, google, google docs, infrastructure, institutional repository, jisc, jisc information environment, open source, personalisation, portal, preservation, repositories, research, resource discovery, search technology, shibboleth, software, standards, tagging, taxonomy, university of leeds, university of york, uportal, virtual research environment, visualisation, vle, web 2.0 |
InfoSeek Ultra: (Yet Another) Web Search Engine |
Tracey Stanley looks at InfoSeek Ultra, a new search engine which claims to allow searching on a index of 50 million Web pages.
issue5 September 1996 |
database, html, java, search technology, software, standards, url, web resources |
Intelligent Searching Agents on the Web |
Tracey Stanley describes Web-based Intelligent Searching Agents, and takes a closer look at a few examples you may wish to play with.
issue7 January 1997 |
browser, database, hypertext, jisc, research, search technology, software, university of leeds, web browser, windows |
Search Engine Corner |
Tracey Stanley looks at 'Push', where a network-based service 'pushes' information to your machine, rather than you 'pulling' information from the service.
issue8 March 1997 |
browser, database, eevl, elib, internet explorer, java, microsoft, multimedia, research, search technology, software, standards, university of leeds, url, web browser, windows |
Search Engines |
Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries.
issue17 September 1998 |
database, knowledge base, knowledge management, natural language processing, personalisation, search technology, university of leeds |
Search Engines Corner |
Tracey Stanley reviews 'Northern Light', which offers features not available elsewhere.
issue15 May 1998 |
copyright, database, search technology, standards, university of edinburgh, university of leeds, url, vocabularies, web resources |
Search Engines Corner: Alta Vista LiveTopics |
Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index.
issue9 May 1997 |
browser, data, database, elib, internet explorer, java, plain text, search technology, software, theseus, ukoln, university of leeds, web browser, web standards, windows |
Search Engines Corner: Finding UK and European Resources on the Web |
Tracey Stanley looks at how to keep your search results coming from within particular geographic areas and thus save on bandwidth.
issue11 September 1997 |
database, elib, oasis, passwords, search technology, sosig, university of leeds, url |
Search Engines Corner: Keyword Spamming - Cheat Your Way to the Top |
Tracey Stanley shows how metadata can be abused to enhance the search engine ranking of Web pages.
issue10 July 1997 |
archives, html, search technology, university of leeds |
Search Engines Corner: Meta-search Engines |
Tracey Stanley discusses the next level up from conventional search engines in the 'information food chain', which provide a sophisticated approach to searching across a number of databases.
issue14 March 1998 |
browser, data, database, flash, graphics, intellectual property, oasis, search technology, software, university of leeds, university of washington, url, web browser, windows |
Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks |
Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.
issue12 November 1997 |
alt, browser, database, georgia institute of technology, graphics, html, research, search technology, standards, university of leeds, university of sydney, url, usability, visualisation, web browser |
The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 |
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation.
issue41 October 2004 |
accessibility, amazon, blog, content management, e-business, e-learning, foaf, instant messaging, intranet, jisc, mobile, mp3, open source, oss watch, portal, research, social networks, software, university of leeds, usability, web accessibility initiative, web development, wiki |
The Portole Project: Supporting E-learning |
Tracey Stanley, Mina Sotiriou and Matthew Dovey provide an overview of a project to produce tools to discover information resources and deploy them within a university VLE.
issue38 January 2004 |
algorithm, bibliographic data, cataloguing, data, database, digital library, dner, dublin core, e-learning, google, google search, html, ims, information architecture, infrastructure, internet explorer, jafer, java, jisc, jisc information environment, marc, marc21, metadata, microsoft, multimedia, open source, openurl, portal, portole, resource discovery, schema, scripting language, search technology, software, sql, sql server, standards, subject gateway, university of leeds, university of oxford, vle, web resources, xml, xml schema, xslt, z39.50 |
Yahoo: UK and Ireland |
Tracey Stanley takes a good look at a new version of an old index, Yahoo, which is aimed at the UK and Ireland.
issue6 November 1996 |
database, elib, graphics, oasis, search technology, sosig, standards, url |
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