Re: Search History
Edward C. Zimmermann (mailto:edz@BSN.COM)
Wed, 31 Jan 1996 19:44:49 +0100
Message-Id: <199601311846.MAA17635@library.wustl.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 19:44:49 +0100
From: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <mailto:edz@BSN.COM>
Subject: Re: 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
Yes it does work.. Since one fills out the form one can store the
search information in the retrieval form and use it to provide the
basis of a "future" search..
This is a simple use of <BASE HREF=..> to imbed the URL to the
CGI in the document...
> 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?
>
The "catalog" of search questions in the above model can then be made
a bookmark.. Within a session I have the current session history...
Netscape/Mosaic are buggy clients here but that is a problem with an
implementation of WWW clients and not with a model...
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