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Search Tools - Related Topics

There are quite a number of topics and disciplines which are related to web site searching. If you find something you'd like to share, please let me know.

• Classification Tools - products for making Yahoo-style directories, usually for topical sites or portals
  
  
• Distributed Indexing with SOIF and RDM - sharing indexes to avoid duplication of effort
  
  
• Information Architecture - designing web sites and other repositories for best access, organization and future expansion
  
  
• Information Retrieval - academic discipline studying search and related issues
  
  • Natural Language Information Retrieval
  • Cross-Language Information Retrieval
  • Report from the 1999 Search Engines Meeting
    
    
• Intranets - internal corporate networks which often have inadequate navigation and need search desperately
  
  
• Knowledge Management - organizing the flow of information within an institution to make it more easily shared
  
  
• Visualization and Concept Clustering - organizing the results of searches to find patterns and concepts
  
  
• User Interface and User Experience - applying techniques and principals to improve the usability of search engines
  
  
• Web Wide Search Engines - general-purpose public search engines, as opposed to searchtools for installation
  • Search Engine Optimization - information and consultants for getting web sites indexed by web search engines.
    
    
• XML and Search - issues of searching text marked up with XML-based tags
  • XML Resources - full text search engines, query engines and query languages for XML.