"Reference Extract will take hundreds of thousands of librarian recommendations and use them in a full scale search engine."~Mike Eisenberg, dean emeritus and professor at the University of Washington L-School.
"The initial focus is on free web, but the point is to build a technical infrastructure and partnership model so it can cover library referenced resources regardless of type." ~ R. David Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and associate professor at Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
Hotline, Nov. 17, 2008,
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Database vendors have been marketing their "Power Search" for federated searching with a price tag of several thousand dollars. How will this free search engine with federated potential measure up?
I think in the end it will depend upon the content, and how long of a process it will take to get off the ground. Hopefully,participation within the library community will lessen the pressure on the project managers?
I hope so too, Ebsco offers a federated database tool - Power Search - but it costs a couple thousand dollars and there are issues with how they count hits for our yearly d/b use report. It would be nice to have a product we create and control.
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