[rclis] Re: yahoo

[De Beer Jennifer <jad at sun.ac.za>]

Hello everyone,

To respond to Lorcan Dempsey's query: it probably does come down to the
way Yahoo and Google do things, and more specifically where Google is
_supposed_ to be more accurate, it is the case that since their
rejigging of their search algorithm roundabout NOvember last year, lots
of people (a la Lorcan Dempsey) have become victim of this rejig. 

PS: Read about it, I think, in a rather recent MIT Technology Review.

Greetings, Jennifer De Beer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rclis-bounces at lists.openlib.org 
> [mailto:rclis-bounces at lists.openlib.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel
> Sent: 23 March 2004 16:46
> To: Dempsey,Lorcan
> Cc: rclis List
> Subject: [rclis] Re: yahoo
> 
> 
>   Dempsey,Lorcan writes
> 
> > Interested in the various 'exposures' to Yahoo and Google 
> recently, I 
> > was looking at Yahoo today. A search on "lorcan dempsey" 
> gives you a 
> > dois link quite early on, yet this does not figure in the 
> top bundle 
> > of screenfuls for Google.
> >
> > For example 
> > 
> http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/doidlibmay:2000:v:6:i:9:p:5
> > .html
> > is number 11 in the Yahoo result. 
> > 
> > Initially I thought that this might be because dois stuff is in 
> > oaister and this is being sucked in by Yahoo. However, a 
> check reveals 
> > that OAISTER does not seem to be indexing DoIS records. Is 
> there some 
> > other reason that DoIS stuff (in this case) is in here, or is it 
> > happenstance falling out of the diff ways Yahoo and Google 
> do things?
> 
>    DoIS is not in OAIster, because it has no OAI interface. However
>    your record got there, it was not through OAI, we don't have 
>    the staff to maintain an OAI gateway at this time. 
> 
> > Incidentally, how decide what gets into DoIS? Is it just the 
> > directions taken by voluntary effort? I do have a 
> relatively complete 
> > list of publications that are accessible on the web at 
> > http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/publications.htm and was 
> > curious about the particular subset that got into DoIS.
> 
>   Currently we use a dataset provided by Julio Alonso Alevaro. I am
>   working on integrating DBLP and find the full text of freely
>   accessible papers mentioned in DBLP using special searches. 
>   This is known as  the konz project. It finds a copy of the
>   full-text file, usually from a researchers homepage, for
>   a bibliographic citation.
> 
> > All the best. If you ever happen to be travelling through Ohio ;-) 
> > come and see us.
> 
>   Sure. I would have applied for a research fellowship, but
>   I am worried about my precarious visa status would be further
>   complicated by such a move. 
> 
>   In any case let me know if you come to NYC, I would be
>   happy to have you as my guest.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Thomas Krichel                      mailto:krichel at openlib.org
>                                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
>                              RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
> 
>  
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