Web Developer.com Guide to Search Engines: Amazon.co.uk: Wes Sonnenreich, Tim Macinta: Books

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This comprehensive reference teaches readers how to choose the right engine or directory for their search, as well as how to select and implement the best engine to run behind a site. Companion Web site contains freeware, shareware, and a demo version of a commercial search engine, as well as examples used throughout the book.

From the Back Cover

"This book is the most comprehensive review of search engines for intranet and Internet use that I am aware of . . . [it] is a superb guide to adding searchability to any site, large or small."––Steve Kirsch Chairman, Infoseek.

You need the Web Developer.com

Guide to Search Engines if:
∗ Your company network has grown too big for manual searches and you need to install a reliable, high–performance search engine ASAP
∗ You′re a webmaster setting up a search engine, ensuring that only the information you choose will be indexed, while increasing your users′ ability to find what they need
∗ You need to quickly zero in on specific types of information online, and you want to find the most efficient search strategy.

Web Developer.com Guide to Search Engines is a complete guide to choosing, obtaining, installing, configuring, supporting, and building the perfect search engine for your website, intranet, enterprise network, or Internet needs. Wes Sonnenreich and Tim Macinta, two former members of the MIT Media Lab, critically appraise the leading search engines, explaining who built them, how they work, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each. Plus, they tell you everything you need to know in order to:
∗ Determine your ideal search parameters and create a profile of your site
∗ Match your site profile with the best engine for the job
∗ Obtain, install, configure, maintain, and get help for each engine
∗ Build your own custom search engine from scratch.

The companion website at www.wiley.com/compbooks/sonnenreich gives you:
∗ Tons of freeware and shareware
∗ A demo version of a commercial search engine
∗ Links to all of the engines covered in the book
∗ Updates about the current state of search engine systems
∗ Code for all the examples in the book.

Visit our website at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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An excellent book with lot's of knowledge 15 Sep 1999

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The introduction of this book is really quite witty and I guess it reminds you that the writers of such books are not complete geeks after all and that they are human.

I used this book for my final year dissertation at university and I feel that it's thanx to this book I obtained a good degree. :)

If anyone reading this is thinking of doing a university project related to search engines i recommend this one as a good source for information gathering.

This book contains an overview of the main search engines and it provides an indepth insight of each one. It is an excellent book for those getting to know search engines and also for those who don't have a clue but wish to develop one for their site anyway. Search engines are the key need for businesses today and this book shows you how to customise and use search engines that tailor your needs.

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Book's web site is gone. 13 July 1999

The search enginge the authors said they would continue to build as an open source project is not available. E-mail to authors bounces. Publisher won't help find authors or the code to the project in the book. The general search engine info is ok, but the coding project is a rip-off.

Solid information on complex programs 23 Oct 1998

This book has some fun background on Web Searching, though it doesn't give enough credit to the years of research in Information Retrieval.

If you have any of the site search products covered in this book -- AltaVista Intranet, Excite for Web Servers, Harvest, ht://Dig, Phantom or Ultraseek, the book provides excellent and detailed instructions.