Other Search-Related Aspects of EIPs

• Taxonomies, categories and directories

• Metasearch and brokering

  • Gather search results from other engines and databases

• Information filtering (alerting)

  • Automatic searching on incoming information

• Specify topics to watch for

  • Technical terms, company names, products, etc.

  • Hard to adjust queries, requires training

• Email or other notification

• Personalization & Collaborative Filtering

  • Search results weighted according to employee role and interests

  • Good for sorting among many equally-relevant pages.

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Internet Librarian 2001
November 8, Pasadena, CA

Avi Rappoport, Search Tools Consulting
www.searchtools.com