{"id":195,"date":"2004-02-27T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/02\/27\/libraries-and-meta-search-engines-meet"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:40","slug":"libraries-and-meta-search-engines-meeting-the-challenge-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/02\/27\/libraries-and-meta-search-engines-meeting-the-challenge-of-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries and meta search engines: meeting the challenge of Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a111'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about search engines, particularly<br \/>\ncrowning Google king and so forth.&nbsp; Yet Bernie Sloan on<br \/>\nLIBLICENSE-L pointed to an interesting article about federated<br \/>\nsearching &#8211; how libraries design web interfaces that can search<br \/>\nmultiple sources at once &#8211; both proprietary sources (literature<br \/>\ndatabases) and freely available resources, some things that search<br \/>\nengines can&#8217;t index.&nbsp; The California Digital Library has been<br \/>\nworking on this for years and Harvard has its Metalib project<br \/>\nunderway.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>Update(noon):<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.com\/article.pl?sid=04\/02\/27\/0933256\"> LISNews<\/a> points to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/27\/opinion\/27FRI4.html?th\">New York Times article<\/a> correlating Google&#8217;s popularity with internet credibility in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about search engines, particularly crowning Google king and so forth.&nbsp; Yet Bernie Sloan on LIBLICENSE-L pointed to an interesting article about federated searching &#8211; how libraries design web interfaces that can search multiple sources at once &#8211; both proprietary sources (literature databases) and freely available resources, some things that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference-sources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}