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Search Tools
Online Discussions: Mailing Lists and Usenet Newsgroups
This page lists Usenet Newsgroups (also known as NetNews) and mailing lists (listservers) relating to search tools.
See also Overviews, Links, Training, Comparative Reviews, and Tools Listings.
Tool-Oriented Lists and Groups
- DTSearch (Yahoo Group) - for DTSearch users, company employees also answer questions
- FAST_SEARCH (Topica List) - for FAST Search users, unaffiliated with FAST Search & Transfer
- Google Search Appliance and Google-Mini - for Google Appliance users. Google Custom Search Help- for CSE and CSBE users, affiliated with Google
- ht://Dig List mailing list for ht://Dig open source search engine, frequented by the core developers
- SWISH-E Electronic Discussion mailing list for SWISH-E open source search engine, frequented by the core developers
- Ultraseek Discuss (Yahoo Group) for Verity Ultraseek users - affiliated with Autonomy
- Webinator Mailing list for Thunderstone Webinator, company employees answer questions
Search Topics Lists and Groups
- comp.infosystems.search (news, web) - all aspects of search and information retrieval
- comp.theory.info-retrieval (news, web) - moderated newsgroup for IR discussion
- SIGIA-L - ACM's Special Interest Group on Information Architecture (including search)
- comp.infosystems.intranet (news, web)- intranet issues
- Searchloggers - discussion of search log analysis
Page Updated: 2007-09-24