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UK Engineering Search Engine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roddy MacLeod)
Tue Jan 21 21:50:13 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:31:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Roddy MacLeod <libram@pp.hw.ac.uk>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: R.A.MacLeod@hw.ac.uk
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UK Engineering Search Engine
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/uksearch.html
An extremely useful new service has been made available by EEVL:
the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library. It is called the
UK Engineering Search Engine, and basically it is a searchable index
of every word from the Web pages of almost all of the UK engineering
resources included in the EEVL database. Sites such as Mailbase
and NISS are not included (these have their own indexes anyway)
but about 1,000 other Web sites are included. The Search Engine is
a Harvest index of the home pages plus those pages within each server
linked to from the home-pages, plus pages linked to from those pages.
It will be updated monthly.
What this means is that there is now a convenient, quick, and easy
way to search for specialised Engineering information on the
Internet in the UK. The UK Engineering Search Engine is similar in
concept to Alta Vista and HotBot, except that it is much more
focused than those all-encompassing indexes and the results of
a search for engineering information are likely to be far more relevant.
Search for any specific engineering topic and if there are
Web pages at UK Internet sites then you are likely to locate them.
The UK Engineering Search Engine also supports phrase searching
and Boolean logic (using And or Or).
EEVL's Main Database of Engineering Resources is, of course, still
available, and is good as a starting point for finding engineering
information, for browsing through what is available, and for
locating resources on fairly broad subjects. The new
UK Engineering Search Engine compliments the Main Database
by allowing you to search for more specific things.
I think that this new service is likely to be very well used in the future.
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