Information Research Weblog

As everyone knows, Information Research uses the Atomz.com search engine - which is made freely available. I've just been experimenting with restricting the pages that are scanned, but it didn't work out. However, in the process I had to ask for the site to be re-indexed (this normally happens automatically every Sunday night) and the log for the indexing tells me that 417 pages have been indexed containing 1,546,605 words.

Wow - 1.5 million words - I had no idea that we'd published as much as that. Now, that includes contents pages (which I was trying to mask) and the editorials but, nevertheless, that's a lot of words. And, given the volume of hits, it seems that people find them useful words.

While I was at it, I checked on the language used in the searching: here are the search strings used last month:

Frequency	Search string
18	knowledge management
12	information management
11	data mining
8	electronic resources
8	information conciousness
7	cko and failure
7	communication
7	digital library
7	information retrieval
7	management
6	cko
6	e publishing
6	information literacy
6	information seeking behaviour
6	online public access catalog
6	outsourcing
6	pattern of communication adopted by marketing department in industrial goods sec
6	search engine
5	company libraries

Some of this strikes me as odd and must be the result of some people clicking on the 'Go' button more than once.