Search Hubs and “Discovered” Custom Search Engines

Tony Hirst

OUseful.Info / The Open University

a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk

ILI2007-C202-Hirst

http://ouseful.info

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“Build Your OwnSearch Engine”

…but I’m lazy…

…and I’m already surrounded by

bundles of contextualised and

related information…

Some quick examples…

http://tinyurl.com/ypenbn

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/howdoi

http://tinyurl.com/39awrg

Green: LinkDomain:YourSite.comYellow: LinkFromDomain:YourSite.com

Blue: Either LinkDomain or LinkFromDomain

http://tinyurl.com/34jysv

Search HubsEntities that act as a focus for concentrations

of, or collections of, resources and/or pointers to resources that can then be used

as the basis of a bounded search.

Search hubs often occur naturally around particular topics or areas of expertise.

Search hubs may be defined by entities that include resources, locations, people, dates

and events.

Bookmark collectionsEmbedded links in pagesReferences in course materialsBrowser HistoryBlogrollsBibliographiesCommentsCitationsPeopleMeetingsPlacesDatesEvents

http://tinyurl.com/34jysv

Bookmark Collections

People

Tags

URLs

http://tinyurl.com/2vov9l

searchfeedr

a search engine intermediary

Custom Search on the fly6/12/2007 12:31:00 PMPosted by: Rajat Mukherjee, Product Manager

Starting today, there's a new feature that makes Custom Search Engines (CSEs) even easier to create and keep up to date.

You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With that one piece of code, Google's search technology will automatically include in your new CSE all of the sites you have linked to from that page, creating a dynamic, powerful and tailored search experience really quickly. Moreover, your new CSE will update itself periodically to include any new links added to that page.

So, if you have a blog or a directory-like site and don't feel like listing all of the URLs you want to search across, you can leave the work to us. With this new feature we'll automatically generate and update your CSE for you.

http://tinyurl.com/2sf8ln

http://tinyurl.com/2q4zxo

Google MyMaps

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