5 days ago by Kevin May

Travelzoo-owned Fly.com will launch a dedicated German site by the end of March 2010 but bigger developments are emerging with news that car hire and hotels are on the agenda.

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6 days ago by Dennis Schaal

Travel metasearch once was lean, mean and hungry, but now it seems that websites like Fly.com and Kayak may be getting a bit wimpy, and might be forsaking consumers' needs in deference to the sensitivities of online travel agencies and airlines.

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7 days ago by CynB

It was a good class tonight. I appreciated the metasearch and federated search definitions and the differences between the two. Clarification at last! I think once we get into the project our understanding of this topic will become clearer.

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9 days ago by Tim Hughes

Categorisation of online travel sites used to be easy. Either a site was transactional or non-transactional.

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9 days ago by CynB

Metasearching and federated searching have me confused. According to our text book: Federated searching — a mechanism in which a system searches a local repository in which accumulated data of numerous resources is incorporated into a single repository and is processed prior to the user’s search. Me ...

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11 days ago by kskees

The articles this week on metasearching were really helpful. While I understood the concept of federated searching last week (with a little help from Wikipedia), this week I finally understand the implications and problems of it in the context of the library and journal searching after reading these ...

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12 days ago by MetaTater

I finally have had an opportunity to skim my latest issue (No. 14) of NextSpace (a newsletter created & distributed by OCLC) and noticed the article, “Metasearch expands the reach of WorldCat Local: Library users can now search both OCLC and non-OCLC databases,” which ties appropriately into our met ...

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12 days ago by CynB

A fellow student’s blog discussed the uselessness/usefulness of LCSH. Being a cataloger, I, of course use them daily and understand how to search by subject heading. However, on the occasion I do substitute at one of the service desks I have found the students have no idea how to do a subject search ...

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13 days ago by admin

This article discusses the potential for libraries to provide a single search interface (metasearch) while searching multiple database, i.e., Google Scholar. Some librarians are “concerned that metasearch is dumbed down and less powerful than native searching”. However, there will always be users wh ...

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13 days ago by Kevin May

Fresh from launching a service to allow users to get detailed search results based on their physical location instead of just nearest airport, Travelfusion has also integrated a mapping device. The UK-based consumer-facing and B2B metasearch engine now allows users to select any location on a Google ...

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