Full Name of the Index
Simple descriptive text for the indicated Web Index.
Key Links
URL for Front Page:
URL for Top-level Page:
URL for Forms Search Page:
URL for Non-Forms Search Page:
URL for Copyright/Legal Page:
URL for FAQ Page:
URL for Help Page:
URL for Author's Page:
Home Organization:
Organization
- Is it a Subject Index?
- Cross References?
- Breadth and Depth
- Is it Searchable?
- Underlying Search Engine
- Features and Limitations
- Multiple Keywords
- Boolean Expressions
- Regular Expressions
- Proximity Searching
- Controlled Vocab
- Root/Suffix Mgmt
- Quality of Hits (min-score), Max Hits
- What does it search? (filenames, titles, subject, summaries, fulltext)
- Forms/non-forms support?
- General or Specialized Content?
Administration
- Gathering - Human, Automatic, User Registered
- Speed of Engine or Interface
- Number of servers (automatic balancing?)
- Average Load (Morn, Aft, Eve)
- Average Processing Time
- Quality of Index
- Number of New Links
- Number of Dead Links
- Size of the Collection
- Clarity of search page or index
- Additional Services?
- Online Help?
- Navigation Aids
- Search Tutorials
- Server Load Indicators
- What's New page
- What's Good page
- What's Popular page
- User Registration page
- Document Rating, Summary, Extract, Timestamp, etc
Evaluation
Example Usage
Demonstrate a sample search session explicitly listing:
- Topic
- Keyword(s), Boolean search controls
- Documents delivered
- Output format
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