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Scoped web site search: an Australian university case study
• What are Australian universities doing with their search engines?
• What search engine/s do they use?• How are search engines implemented
across university web sites?– Are they internally consistent?
– Could we be doing better?
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Scoped web site search: an Australian university case study
• 12 universities offer more than one search engine option
• Google is the most popular option, offered by 18 universities
– 11 of these also have another search engine on the site
• PanOptic is second to Google, used by 7 universities
– One of these also offers another search engine on the site (Google)
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Scoped web site search: an Australian university case study
• Why don’t we just use Google? It’s free. Why did we buy a search engine? (the questions I am often asked.)
• I imagine the answers are similar for a number of universities
– Public search is like the tip of the iceberg– We can’t ‘control’ Google results the way we can a
local search engine– Our public web presence is not in a single domain
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Scoped web site search: an Australian university case study
• Scoped search – friend or foe?• Universities seem to like scoped
searches. 25 of us have them on our web sites
• On 23 of those sites, application of scoped search is not consistent across sub-sites
• At 4 universities, some sub-sites have no search option