LIS 601: Week7
Key Search-Engine Concepts drawn mainly from the Venditto (1996) Article

Some things to consider

• Index size
• Index currency
• Indexing depth
• Indexing policies concerning:
  1. meta-tags
  2. selection
  3. weeding
  4. spamming
• User Interface:
  1. Help facilities
  2. Display methods/options
• Ranking method
• Speed of search
• Types of searches:
  1. natural language support
  2. Boolean (and, or, not)
  3. relevance feedback (see Excite's "More like this" feature")
  4. URL searches
  5. Case-sensitivity
  6. Stemming
  7. Proximity searches
  8. Sub-set searches