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"Search doesn't have to be awful, but it's never going to be exactly fun to skim through tens of hundreds of supposedly "relevant" results to our query, hoping to find the ones we're looking for. We can make things better by allowing readers to quickly narrow down their search using rich facets. We can support those readers who happen to be in an exploratory mood by adding smart secondary navigation by genre, topic, location and medium. We can answer questions readers might have about a certain piece of content before they even ask them, preempting search."

"A patent application published by Microsoft at the end of 2009 hinted at an evolution in search results that goes beyond blending into those results a mix of information from other types of search results. The document describes something referred to as "query portals." The patent application is: Query-Driven Web Portals Invented by Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Venkatesh Ganti, Dong Xin, Sanjay Agrawal, and Arnd Christian Konig Assigned to Microsoft US Patent Application 20090327223 Published December 31, 2009 Filed: June 26, 2008 Abstract: The described implementations relate to query portals. One technique analyzes search results generated by a web search engine responsive to a user search query. The technique also dynamically generates a query portal that lists the search results as well as entities identified from the search results. In addition to providing search results for a specific query, we're told that the search engine will also include "complementary information derived from the search results." "

"Qu'est-ce qu'un moteur de recherche vertical ? Comparons le web à un univers, en constante expansion. Au sein de cette univers, on peut trouver diverses galaxies : celle des jeux vidéo, de la cuisine, ou de l'écologie par exemple. Un moteur de recherche classique fonctionne ambitieusement en cherchant ses informations sur toutes ces galaxies à la fois, nous privant ainsi de contexte. Chaque moteur Konodeo, à l'opposé, ne se consacre qu'à une galaxie, offrant un véritable contexte aux requêtes effectuées, et donc une meilleure finesse de résultats. "

"Vous désirez offrir à vos utilisateurs un accès simple à toute l'information disponible dans votre entreprise en respectant les règles de sécurité. Vous désirez mettre en place une solution à forte valeur ajoutée qui permet aux utilisateurs de capitaliser, d'organiser et de partager leur travail de recherche afin de valoriser pleinement l'information disponible ? AFS@Entreprise intègre la brique technologique CKS qui apporte les fonctions collaboratives dont vos utilisateurs ont besoin. Avec AFS@Enterprise, vous disposez de toute la puissance d'AFS pour trouver la bonne information quelque soit sa source (interne ou externe à l'entreprise), pour dynamiser le fonctionnement collaboratif de l'entreprise, tout en maîtrisant parfaitement les aspects de sécurité ou de confidentialité des données. "

The following tools can be used to connect to Ryerson Library resources and services from other sites on the web : - Google and NetVibes Search Gadget - Ryerson Library Lookup from Amazon/Indigo/Google Books - Search the Ryerson Library Catalogue from Facebook - Get It Buttons in Google Scholar - Ryerson Library Catalogue Search

"LibX is an open source browser extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides access to your library's resources. Designed originally as a Firefox extension, version 1.0 of the LibX extension for Internet Explorer is available as of December 2008 (for those of you at Internet Explorer but not Firefox friendly institutions....or maybe that's just us!). "

"Widgetbox allows you to develop widgets, or mini-applications, that you can put into web pages, blogs or MySpace. There was also an option to create Facebook apps through Widgetbox, but it was disabled a few months ago so they could modify it to work with the new Facebook...it appears that's been tabled for the time being. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Once you've done that, you can select the type of widget you want to make. (...)"

"Open Search browser plug-ins are small XML files that reference a template URL which include any parameters for the specified search engine. Open Search browser plug-ins can be created using any search engine that produces a stable, durable URL to deliver results. The Open Search standard is compatible with the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.x browsers. Full documentation for the standard can be found at: http://www.opensearch.org/"

"Not all library content can be exposed as HTML pages for harvesting by search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. If a library instead exposes its content through a local search interface, that content can then be found by users of metasearch engines such as A9 and Vivísimo. The functionality provided by the local search engine will affect the functionality of the metasearch engine and the findability of the library's content. This paper describes that situation and some emerging standards in the metasearch arena that choose different balance points between functionality and ease of implementation. "

"The following are some of the Discovery Layer Interfaces that have been selected by libraries."

"The Google Search Appliance XHTML Stylesheet defines a user interface for your Google Search Appliance that conforms to modern web standards including XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML-MP) and CSS 2.1. It generates well-formed, valid markup and is accessible in a variety of browsers and presentation modes. "

"In a previous post, I discussed the different ways, one can add support to searching OPAC and other library subscribed databases. The four methods were Opensearch plugins , custom toolbars (Conduit toolbar , Google toolbar and Libx) , Smart keyword searches and Search bookmarklets"

"Pas de business intelligence et de réactivité sans un bon moteur de recherche. Il faut désormais pouvoir tirer parti de toutes les sources de données de l'entreprise : PGI, CRM, Ged, intranets, système de collaboration... Denis Lafont, responsable du pôle de compétences Enterprise Search de Capgemini, a testé et comparé 11 concurrents de Google Search Appliance."

"The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is a black-box system in that you install it, set up your options, and it runs. It is certainly standards-based: it indexes HTML and other popular formats; and the results are typically defined using XML and style sheets. But the options you can customize with regard to data sources, relevance ranking, and extended search (thesaurus, taxonomies, and parametric or faceted search) are somewhat limited. FAST, Autonomy/Verity K2, OmniFind and other traditional enterprise search engines have always been toolkits. You install the software and begin the process of customizing it for your environment. Data in databases or content repositories? No problem. Custom security implementation? Modify the indexing and search methods. Have custom thesauri or existing taxonomies? Plug them in. Need parametric or faceted search results? Small matter of programming - although not much. Want to change the way results are ranked or sorted? Use the native query syntax - for example, FAST Query Language (FQL) or the Verity Query Language (VQL)."

"Sinequa est un éditeur de logiciel reconnu dans le domaine de l'Enterprise Search. Les entreprises se transforment. Les volumes de données explosent. La proposition de valeur de Sinequa est de fournir une solution clé-en-main d'Enterprise Search pour valoriser tous les contenus de l'entreprise, générant ainsi des économies pouvant atteindre plusieurs millions d'euro."

"Crystal Mapping, like mind mapping, concept mapping and other graphical organisers and brainstorming tools arranges information in a joined up visual context to help improve thinking, learning, understanding and knowledge. Crystal Maps use circles, the universal symbol of unity, rather than nodes and lines to connect ideas. Consequently your maps are more structured and instinctively seen as forming a 'whole that is greater than the sum of its parts'. This helps you plan, communicate and present insights and share and collaborate on projects because people can see 'the bigger picture' context. This new approach is a step on the road to new and better ways of managing projects and information complexity through visual means."

"Koha utilise le moteur d'indexation open-source Zebra. Le site http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/ présente Zébra comme : "un outil hautement performant permettant d'indexer et de rechercher du texte structuré. Il est capable de lire les enregistrements dans différents formats d'entrée (par exemple email, XML, MARC) et donne accès aux données grâce à l'utilisation d'équations de recherches booléennes et de requêtes en texte libre. Zebra supporte de grosses bases de données ( dizaines de millions d'enregistrements, dizaines de gigabytes). Il permet la mise à jour incrémentale de la base de données sur des systèmes en production. Du fait que Zebra support le protocole de recherche Z39.50, vous pouvez rechercher dans les bases de données Zebra par l'intermédiaire d'une grande variété de programmes et outils, commerciaux ou libres, qui sont capables de communiquer via ce protocole." (traduit du Zebra - User-s Guide and Reference, p3, http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/doc/zebra.pdf)."

"Abrégée en RI ou IR (Information Retrieval en anglais), la recherche d'information est la science qui consiste à rechercher l'information dans des documents - les documents eux-mêmes ou les métadonnées qui décrivent les documents -, dans des bases de données - qu'elles soient relationnelles ou mises en réseau par des liens hypertexte comme dans le World Wide Web, l'internet, et les intranets, pour le texte, le son, les images, les données."

"The Engines win by a landslide, at least according to current college students. They preferred searching on Google or Yahoo versus their college library systems, based on the attributes of: speed (90%); convenience (84%); ease of use (87%); cost-effectiveness (71%); and reliability (63%). Libraries, however, won on more trustworthy measures including credibility (77%) and accuracy (76%). While students prefer library sources, they also heavily count on the engines. Over half (53%) say the results from engines are as trustworthy as libraries. Google, Yahoo and Ask all rank about the same, without much differentiation."

"La Recherche d'Information (RI) est un champ d'études historiquement organisé autour des documentalistes et des institutions chargées de gérer un grand nombre de documents, principalement textuels (tandis que le champ des bases de données se structurait principalement autour des informaticiens et de la gestion des systèmes d'information de l'entreprise). Les méthodes et les concepts en vigueur dans la Recherche d'Information dépendent fortement de ses origines historiques, et sont plus adaptées aux systèmes d'information documentaires que les méthodes issues de bases de données, car plus centrées sur les besoins des utilisateurs. Par exemple les notions de reformulation de requêtes, de pertinence utilisateur, de besoin d'information proviennent de la RI. "