Comments on: Ouch! That feedback must hurt! http://federatedsearchblog.com/2010/02/26/ouch-that-feedback-must-hurt/ Covers topics related to federated search and the deep web Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:01:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harold http://federatedsearchblog.com/2010/02/26/ouch-that-feedback-must-hurt/comment-page-1/#comment-43237 Harold Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:31:18 +0000 http://federatedsearchblog.com/?p=1226#comment-43237 I can understand the frustrations Concordia had with their product as I recognise many of them in the implementation we have at the university I work for. Yet as you write the alternative is to go back to searching through dozens of separate sources and, however problematic some steps have been, the end-user is unaware of at least 90% of this. We have a fairly low-cost product and for all its shortcomings and the problems we've had with our vendor (you get what you pay for?) the current situation is a big improvement over seeing a large number of our resources hardly being used. I never want to go back to a situation where we don't have a federated search solution. I can understand the frustrations Concordia had with their product as I recognise many of them in the implementation we have at the university I work for.
Yet as you write the alternative is to go back to searching through dozens of separate sources and, however problematic some steps have been, the end-user is unaware of at least 90% of this.

We have a fairly low-cost product and for all its shortcomings and the problems we’ve had with our vendor (you get what you pay for?) the current situation is a big improvement over seeing a large number of our resources hardly being used.

I never want to go back to a situation where we don’t have a federated search solution.

]]> By: Oleg Kreymer http://federatedsearchblog.com/2010/02/26/ouch-that-feedback-must-hurt/comment-page-1/#comment-42880 Oleg Kreymer Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:14:07 +0000 http://federatedsearchblog.com/?p=1226#comment-42880 Welcome to the club, Concordia University Library! Federated search looks more and more like the MiniDisk technology that never really happened. "...when the only alternative is to search a few dozen sources one at a time, federated search looks really good." Uh?... No, it doesn't. Welcome to the club, Concordia University Library!
Federated search looks more and more like the MiniDisk technology that never really happened.

“…when the only alternative is to search a few dozen sources one at a time, federated search looks really good.”
Uh?… No, it doesn’t.

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