[LINK] Google Inadequacies [Was Re: Tony and ANU]

[Danny Yee]

Roger Clarke wrote:
> I've been using the ANU's copy of Panoptic/Funnelback as the 
> standard, and measuring Google's service against it.
 
Sydney Uni also uses Panoptic/Funnelback.  My experience is that its
relevance rankings are not nearly as good as even an improvised Google
site search -- just "<search terms> site:usyd.edu.au".  I suspect
that's largely because Google knows about links on *external* sites,
which provides valuable information about how useful people find
various Uni web pages.

Danny.