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Re: CitedSites(sm): Citation Indexing of Web Resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Fri Oct 11 20:14:58 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:39:32 -0500 (CDT)
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From: bg7601s@acad.drake.edu (Bruce Gilbert)
Subject: Re: CitedSites(sm): Citation Indexing of Web Resources
"Robert E. Maas" <rem@one-o.com> wrote:
> Actually even before we consider such citation analysis, I'd like to
> see a search engine where I can provide a URL and it can provide me
> with a list of all similar URLs that it has in its index, then I can
> select which URLs I want to find citations for, and it can then present
> me with a menu of all the places that cite those particular URLs.
>
> For example, I'd like to find all URLs within my NetAbuse.html index
> that are sited from anywhere, and for each of them get a list of > citations.
>
> Do you know any such search engine available now or planned for near > future?
>
Although this doesn't do *exactly* what you want, Digital's
"Altavista" search engine provides some of this functionality.
The "link" search strategy for use by Altavista allows you to retrieve
all indexed sites that have cited a particular URL. Thus, if you
input:
link:http://www.drake.edu/lib.html
as an Altavista search, you will retrieve all Web pages (all that
are indexed by Altavista, that is; if you know of a site that isn't
indexed, you may add it) that contain "links" to this document
(the Drake Library homepage, in this instance). (To get the second
part of what Robert wants, you'd have to visit each site, and download
their "links"; you could automate this part, too, however, using
Webwhacker, or something similar.)
While I'm on the subject, Altavista is well worthy of a visit
by all Internauts and librarians, particularly for its "advanced searching"
mode, which allows extensive use of boolean searching, as well
as other capabilities, most of which are explained in their "help"
section. Altavista is available at:
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
The URL to "advanced" searching mode is:
http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq
BTW, I have no connection to Altavista, other than as a user of
their service.
--
Bruce Gilbert http://www.drake.edu/bgil/www/bruce/bruce.html
Systems Librarian -- Drake University E-Mail: bg7601s@acad.drake.edu
"Many said, We see no visions in the darksom air."
-- William Blake
