Message-Id: <199601311637.KAA08303@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:33:18 -0600 From: John D Boggs <mailto:jdboggs@PIPER.HAMLINE.EDU> Subject: Search History To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
One disadvantage I can see of using a web search engine is that there is, to the best of my knowledge, no way to have a search history capability. With a dedicated Z39.50 client it is easy to keep old search commands (even from session to session) and even sets from previous searches.Does anyone know of any web catalog searching sites that prove me wrong? I suppose a CGI-bin script could be set up that would save old searches within a single session, but that sounds to me like a very large use of resources on the server side, when clients that do the same thing could spread the load around to people's desktops.
What do people think?
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