Message-Id: <199602010259.UAA17369@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:54:00 +1000 From: Renato Iannella <mailto:renato@DSTC.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Search History To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
John D Boggs <mailto:jdboggs@PIPER.HAMLINE.EDU> wrote: >
> 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.
Infoseek Professional (http://professional.infoseek.com/) saves your queries from each session.
When you next visit the site, you can simply ask it to execute your set of standard queries.
It uses CGI scripts to manage it all.
Cheers... Renato _______________________________________________________________________ Dr Renato Iannella http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/ri Research Data Network CRC phone/fax: +61 7 3365 4310/11 DSTC Pty Ltd, Gehrmann Laboratories urn:dstc.edu.au:renato:home University of Queensland, 4072, AUSTRALIA email: mailto:renato@dstc.edu.au