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Search the RIGHT SOURCES
As per estimate in 2005, 5,000,000 terrabytes of information exist in the world, only 2-3% of which are currently indexed and searchable. Google CEO Schmidt's timing for when all of the world's information will be searchable? 300 years, according to a presentation he did in the summer of 2005.Google indexes 3% per year, which doesn’t cover Extranet sources!! Clearly we need an engine which starts by looking the right places first.
So what to do about it? At the moment there is no plug-and-play solution. No one engine delivers what we want. There is a multitude of search engines and methods of using computers, which are necessary and helpful to the tech transfer practitioner.
The Good Search Engine searches not only the Internet, but also Extranet and in some cases, Intranets (requires “co-authentication”). The Good Engine uses experts to pre-select sites, known to be most relevant. Innovation & tech transfer professionals have to focus to be efficient. You will have to build your own subset of good sources for your line of business.
Each engine has its special language. And most users specify <5 keywords, when they search. What to do when we get for example 153,000 hits or more? The practitioner knows how to customize the Good Engine in terms of special templates, known to produce best results, and set up with 20-30 keywords and using Boolean language and other methods to focus the searches.
The Good Engine, customized as above, must deliver results in easily reviewable formats, not only with headlines and links, as is mostly the case at present.
WYSINWYG: What You See Is NOT What You Want to Get. The right results may be down the pile behind the paid-for advertisers. Google and Yahoo are biased in their sorting, must be, it’s part of the algorithm (any system has a bias). The problem(s) are many: normally much too many hits (imagine what it may be when it all is indexed!), and it’s WYSINWYWG.The Good Engine makes its own biases, confirmed by peers of the trade. The practical - and affordable- solution is to combine different approaches. One of the best available tools is JBEngine, available through TII Click here. I developed that website and have included some other good hints and sources for searching, including Rollyo, whic I shall review later . There are other good sources and tools, some of which are not fully integrated in JBEngine.
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