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Search Improvements Delivery Report (Nov)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suzana Lisanti)
Fri Dec 7 12:02:41 2001
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From: Suzana Lisanti <lisanti@MIT.EDU>
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Project Name: Search Improvements for the MIT Home Page
Project Team: Suzana Lisanti, Anne Salemme
Report Date: December 7, 2001
Project URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/delivery/search
Accomplishments during November:
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- Installed Athena and latest version of Inktomi search engine (4.2.0)
on gloomybog.mit.edu
- Switched searching from MIT home page to the latest Inktomi search engine
- Began to define desired functionality and appearance for the search
form and results page
- Identified several "best practices" search sites
Goals for December:
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- Define appearance of search results, including header and footer on
the page.
- Further define desired functionality.
- Install test search engine for trying out the various options.
- Consult with industry expert Avi Rappaport about best practices.
- Investigate new features provided by the latest version of Inktomi
Issues:
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- Define types of users of the search engine: users looking for things
(i.e., using query forms), and web site maintainers (who care how
their sites get indexed, and who may write their own query forms) ,
and researchers looking for search engine data.
Upcoming:
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- Regular weekly meetings.
Team Dynamics:
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- Fine.
Suzana Lisanti
Director, MIT Web Communications Services
N42-040
(617) 253-0100
