Re: Relevance ranking: was Aqua Brow

From: Tom Keays <tomkeays_at_nyob>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:31:58 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
I did a meatball keyword search on the words bee virus in the
following places (links given for free sources).

If I were a kid writing a paper, not knowing or caring about the
relative merits of the various sources, which source would I likely
think was doing the better job?

Google http://www.google.com/search?q=bee+virus [~597,000 results]

Scirus http://scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=bee+virus [56,017 results]

Google Scholar http://www.google.com/scholar?q=bee+virus [~16,100 results]

PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=PubMed&EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.SearchBar.Term=bee+virus
[184 results]

Agricola (FirstSearch) [95 results]

Agricola (NAL) http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/ [60 articles + 1 book]

Biological Sciences (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) [38 results]

Proquest (multiple databases including ABI Inform, newspapers,
Research Library) [20 results]

Wilson Fulltext Omnifile [17 results]

Gale Academic OneFile [6 results]
Received on Sat Jan 05 2008 - 16:34:01 EST