I just received this email from the A9 OpenSearch team:
We have just released OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2. We hope to declare it the final version shortly, and it is already supported by A9.com. Uprading from a previous version should only take a few minutes…
OpenSearch 1.1 allows you to specify search results in HTML, Atom, or [...]

Posted December 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: a9, a9.com, aggregated search, amazon, federated search, libraries, library, library catalog, library catalogs, metasearch, opac, open search, opensearch, search. 4 Comments.

I’ve been looking seriously at metasearch/federated search products for libraries recently. After a lot of reading and a few demos I’ve got some complaints.
I’m surprised how vendors, even now, devote so much time demonstrating patron features that are neither used nor appreciated by any patrons without an MLS. Recent lessons (one, two, three) should have [...]

Posted July 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: a9, clusty, federated search, google, libraries, library, library systems, metasearch, natural language search, opac, patron, patrons, search technology, teoma, yahoo. 8 Comments.