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AbleGrape.com is a good example of a focused search engine that aims to index only "authoritative" sources within a particular disciple -- in this case it's wine, enology, and viticulture. It currently crawls about 40,000 vetted websites. It's a great search engine for the subject area it serves, and it probably helped that the creator was a VP at Inktomi. Keith On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Cindy Harper <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > So that led me to speculate about a search engine that ranked just by links > from .edu's, libraries sites, and a librarian-vetted list of .orgs, > scholarly publishers, etc. I think you can limit by .edu in the linked-from > in Google - I haven't tried that much. if anyone here has experience at > using tha technique, I'd like to hear about it. But I'm thinking now about > the possibility of a search engine limited to sites cooperatively vetted by > librarians, that would incorporate ranking by # links. Something more > responsive than cataloging websites in our catalogs. > > Is anyone else thinking about these ideas? or do you know of projects that > approach this goal of leveraging librarian's vetting of authoritative > sources?