Re: [htdig] university site search

[David A. <D.J...@so...>]

Nicole,

Google offer a service, what the htdig group offer is rather different: free
software.

Many Universities, including my own, have installed the htdig software at
their sites and configured it to provide a search index of their University.
Universities use htdig because:

    it is very good
    the purchase cost is zero
    they have the in-house expertise to install and run it
    it can be configured to provide exactly the coverage required.

For example, at the University of Southampton (http://www.soton.ac.uk) our
htdig search covers 278 web servers.

There is, of course, the hidden cost that ~10% of my time (and therefore
salary) is spent maintaining the search index:  keeping the list of servers
uptodate, excluding unwanted pages (eg PHP-driven forums) as they appear,
and updating the software from time to time.

David Adams
Corporate Information Services
Information Systems Services
University of Southampton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smeenk, Nicole (ELS)" <N.S...@el...>
To: <htd...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: [htdig] university site search


> I saw you powering serveral university website search services. Can this
be
> compared to the Google university search? Do you also offer it for free to
> universities (public sector)? If not, what do you charge?And what service
do
> you offer exactly, what feature?  Thank you in advance, kind regards
Nicole
> Smeenk
>
>
>
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