Bill Drew of the Morrisville State College Library has created a custom search engine that aggregates content from more than 200 reference sites.
The sites are those included in the 1999-2006 annual lists issued by the Best of Free Reference Web Sites Committee of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association (wow – I wonder what the committee president's business card looks like!).
The search engine is built using Google Custom Search Engine. Essentially, it is now possible to create a search engine that only covers the specialized websites one wants.
On my Library Boy blog, I have pointed out other custom search engines that librarians and others have been building:
- New Search Engine for Library Blogs (October 29, 2006): "LisZen is a new customized search engine that searches the content of more than 500 library-related blogs."
- Customized Search for Intergovernmental Organizations (November 16, 2006): "The people at Indiana University Libraries in Bloomington, Indiana have developed customized search tools for IGOs – intergovernmental organizations like the World Bank, the European Union and the UN."
- Blawg-Finding Tools (November 22, 2006): "Well, the Law Dawg Blawg, created by law librarians at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, describes 'New Tools for Finding Blawgs' in a post from November 18, 2006.The post describes 2 finding aids: the refurbished blawg.com site (…) and the search engine BlawgSearch." The search engine on blawg.com is based on the Google custom search technology.
- Customized Search For French Legal Material (December 15, 2006): "More and more libraries and individuals have been using tools such as Google Coop to build customized topical collections of searchable online material.The French blawg Doc en Vrac has a recent item about a number of searchable collections, including French-language blogs and legal material from France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec."
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[...] Ça tombe bien parce que c'est plus pratique d'utiliser des assistants de recherches pour entrer 350 URL dans Google Coop que de le faire soi même. Par contre, ce serait sympa de partager la liste des sites avec le public. [via Slaw] [...]
When I posted about the CSE tool back in October, I was hoping for this type of fast adoption rate. I can't help but think though, we've only seen the beginning of the possibilities for this tool.
Also, here's a great article a creating advanced CSEs, and how to weight different sources.