TY - JOUR AU - LeVan, Ralph PY - 2006/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - OpenSearch and SRU: A Continuum of Searching JF - Information Technology and Libraries JA - ITAL VL - 25 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.6017/ital.v25i3.3346 UR - https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/3346 SP - 151-153 AB - <p>Not all library content can be exposed as HTML pages&nbsp;for harvesting by search engines such as Google and&nbsp;Yahoo!. If a library instead exposes its content through&nbsp;a local search interface, that content can then be found&nbsp;by users of metasearch engines such as A9 and Vivísimo.&nbsp;The functionality provided by the local search engine&nbsp;will affect the functionality of the metasearch engine&nbsp;and the findability of the library’s content. This paper&nbsp;describes that situation and some emerging standards in&nbsp;the metasearch arena that choose different balance points&nbsp;between functionality and ease of implementation.</p> ER -