Using envirodaemon to search the internet for environmental information and building custom search engines

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Abstract

The Internet holds vast stores of information pertaining to pollution prevention and environmental issues, and with each day more is added. Yet, as this storehouse grows, the difficulty of finding specific information increases. This article details how EnviroDaemon was built to ease the task of finding this information and knowledge base. It automatically builds and updates a catalog of objects at pre-selected Internet sites that are related to pollution prevention. Users search for information by submitting keywords. Searches can be restricted to small subsets of the indexed sites by choosing one of five search criteria, or the entire catalog can be searched. The results are returned rapidly and are embedded in several lines of text to provide context. If the text looks promising, the user can click on a hyperlink to access the full article. Since its release in March, EnviroDaemon has seen increasing use, especially following its demonstration at the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable Conference. The authors also discuss the process of building this search engine to show interested readers how to create other environmental custom search engines. © 1998 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company.

Identifier

0004688583 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Environmental Quality Management

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1002/tqem.3310070310

e-ISSN

15206483

ISSN

10881913

First Page

103

Last Page

109

Issue

3

Volume

7

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