"Oz Government" search engine

Tom Minchin tom@iacom.com.au
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:15:26 +1100 (EST)


> 
> We were involed with a project with the National Library and a number of
> other institutions to use harvest technology to provide distributed
> indexes.  The National Library has been looking at this for government use
> and recently held a major seminar on this.
> 
It's possible to do a pseudo search on all government documentation using
Altavista. In a simple search add to your query:
	+host:gov.au

Of course, you'll miss out on all the web pages not residing on a host
with the domain "gov.au". But it's a start.

tom@iacom.com.au