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August 26, 2008
Search engines in webs of librarianship
The social Web technologies enable information resources are shared, since they are based on open applications where interoperability is guaranteed. Users can customize sites and services, according to their needs. For example, are various possibilities to set up specialized search engines in an area or target a specific type of pages. Services such as Rollyo and Swicki or customizable search engines of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo, through its services and Search Monkey BOSS, replacing its Yahoo Search Builder, provide a particular form of consultation on the website of the person or institution that has created this custom search engine, besides enabling the user to choose where he wants the resources to search. Thus, various consulting services that using these technologies, have created search engines specializing in library science, such as Blogs on reports and documents, with half a hundred selected sites, and SeekLIS, which allows simultaneous consultation to a hundred specialized blogs , Both created and Spain. In the international arena, custom vertical search engines are more prominent Libworm, you are looking at 1,500 sources related to library science, information and documentation, Liszen, which interrogates about 750 that allows resources and integrate its search engine to anchor engines Mozilla Firefox, and Librarian's E-Library, which directs his consulting some 300 sites and which also uses the Google API. it comes to search engines to the letter, a solution to personalize our websites, creating search engines that only consult sites and resources that previously have been selected, those sites that most interest to our users and our library.
---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.
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Published: August 26, 2008
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