Comments on: 10 Reasons Why Librarians Should Use Exalead. http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/ The most wonderful search engines you've never seen! Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:46:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Gwen Harris http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45694 Gwen Harris Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:28:42 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45694 Exalead is the only search engine of note today to offer the NEAR operator. However, it only recognizes it in uppercase. So - necessary NEAR/2 illusions - as an example, or chomsky NEAR "necessary illusions" for words within 16 words of each other. Or just use the option from the Advanced Search form. This old page on syntax has more detail than the current Exalead help pages. http://partner.exalead.es/search/?definition=querySyntaxReference&nocookie=1& While I too like Exalead, I have not always found it to be fresh. This can change from month to month. A good check is to append sort:new to the search to see results ordered by date -- eg nafta sort:new. Exalead is the only search engine of note today to offer the NEAR operator. However, it only recognizes it in uppercase. So - necessary NEAR/2 illusions - as an example, or chomsky NEAR “necessary illusions” for words within 16 words of each other. Or just use the option from the Advanced Search form.

This old page on syntax has more detail than the current Exalead help pages.
http://partner.exalead.es/search/?definition=querySyntaxReference&nocookie=1&

While I too like Exalead, I have not always found it to be fresh. This can change from month to month. A good check is to append sort:new to the search to see results ordered by date — eg nafta sort:new.

]]> By: Gary Price http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45354 Gary Price Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:24:03 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45354 William: Exalead is a open web search engine like Google, Yahoo, and Live.com so I am not sure where you are going with your comments. I was complimenting the author on his post and adding a few more facts. As far as the Exalead Desktop Search is concerned, I was writing about this for both personal use and for patrons who are looking to explore desktop search. Info pros need to know about a wide variety of tools so they can share the best ones with patrons, each with different info needs. Btw, Exalead.com and Exalead Desktop Search are free. William:
Exalead is a open web search engine like Google, Yahoo, and Live.com so I am not sure where you are going with your comments. I was complimenting the author on his post and adding a few more facts.

As far as the Exalead Desktop Search is concerned, I was writing about this for both personal use and for patrons who are looking to explore desktop search.

Info pros need to know about a wide variety of tools so they can share the best ones with patrons, each with different info needs.

Btw, Exalead.com and Exalead Desktop Search are free.

]]> By: william http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45351 william Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:00:38 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45351 You must be joking ? No public institution should use any propriety non open source software. This should be against the law. Why should a public institution like a library pay a huge license fee to Exalead or any other company ? There is Open source software that without a lot of time and money can be made just as good as Exalead and probably better since there will be many more programmers that will contribute to the code. And once since the code will be open source all the other libraries could use the search with out paying and this of course will benefit tax payers as well as any other public institution that wants to use the application. You must be joking ?
No public institution should use any propriety non open source software.
This should be against the law. Why should a public institution like a library pay a huge license fee to Exalead or any other company ?

There is Open source software that without a lot of time and money can be made just as good as Exalead and probably better since there will be many more programmers that will contribute to the code. And once since the code will be open source all the other libraries could use the search with out paying and this of course will benefit tax payers as well as any other public institution that wants to use the application.

]]> By: Gary Price http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45340 Gary Price Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:34:38 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/13/10-reasons-why-librarians-should-use-exalead/#comment-45340 Nice Job Phil! I agree many of the advanced features on Exalead can not be found elsewhere and are services info pros have wanted since AltaVista days. Let me add that the proximity operator is based at 15 words in either direction. For example: "Phil Bradley" near London Means your name has to be within 15 words of London. However, as we learned a couple of years ago, the number of words can be changed. For example: "Charles Knight" near/5 Virginia So we go from 15 words to 5 in either direction. Here's a post on the topic from 2006. http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/04/11/exaleads-proximity-operator-offers-more-precision/ Thanks to Karen B. for her help with this post. I would also suggest trying the Exalead desktop client and also their very cool feature that allows users to personalize their Exalead home page with direct links to favorite pages (including screen caps). Finally, I do link the image search (powered by Picsearch) and especially like to see that Exalead is experimenting with new technology including facial search recognition from France's LTU Technology. cheers, gary p.s. Speaking of recent results have you seen the recent UI changes at Gigablast. Nice work from Matt Wells. http://www.gigablast.com Nice Job Phil!

I agree many of the advanced features on Exalead can not be found elsewhere and are services info pros have wanted since AltaVista days.

Let me add that the proximity operator is based at 15 words in either direction.
For example:
“Phil Bradley” near London
Means your name has to be within 15 words of London.

However, as we learned a couple of years ago, the number of words can be changed. For example:

“Charles Knight” near/5 Virginia
So we go from 15 words to 5 in either direction.

Here’s a post on the topic from 2006.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/04/11/exaleads-proximity-operator-offers-more-precision/
Thanks to Karen B. for her help with this post.

I would also suggest trying the Exalead desktop client and also their very cool feature that allows users to personalize their Exalead home page with direct links to favorite pages (including screen caps).

Finally, I do link the image search (powered by Picsearch) and especially like to see that Exalead is experimenting with new technology including facial search recognition from France’s LTU Technology.

cheers,
gary

p.s. Speaking of recent results have you seen the recent UI changes at Gigablast. Nice work from Matt Wells.
http://www.gigablast.com

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