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Hi everyone, If any of you have some time this Thursday (and in light of our discussions concerning our new website and the community portal idea, etc.), this session should shed some light on our deliberations. Cheers, Leo --------------- >Faculty of Computer Science, DalTech, Dalhousie University >Distinguished Speaker Series > > >Speaker: Lee Giles > NEC Research Institute > Princeton, NJ > >Title: Searching the Web: > Current Limitations, New Techniques, and Future Directions > >Time: Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 11:35 > >Location: Computer Science, Auditorium Room 127 > 6050 University Ave. > >Cost: All talks in the distinguished speaker series are free. > Refreshments will be served. > >Abstract: > >This talk describes current limitations, new techniques, and future >directions for information access on the web. The web and search >engines represent a significant improvement for communication. While >there has long been a lot of information available, the search engines >facilitate efficient access to an increasing amount of information. >However, we found that search engines do not index sites equally, may >not index new pages for months, and that no engine indexes more than >about one sixth of the estimated size of the publicly indexable >web. We also analyzed the volume and distribution of information on >the web, images, metadata usage, and search engine indexing by domain. >New techniques for information access on the web are described, >including two projects at NEC Research Institute: Inquirus, which is a >content-based metasearch engine, and CiteSeer, which is the largest >free full-text index of scientific literature in the world. _________________________________________ Leo J. Deveau Executive Director Chebucto Community Net, Halifax, N.S. Canada ____________________________________ "The organic is not digital." _____________________________________
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