In Search of a Better Search Engine

As college sites grow to millions of documents and balloon in complexity, officials turn to Google and other vendors for help

Early this decade, the number of Web-based documents stored on the servers of the University of Florida hovered near 300,000. By the end of 2006, that number had leapt to four million. Now, the university hosts close to eight million Web documents.

“We have approximately 20,000 employees, all producing stuff, and an increasing amount of that goes on the Web,” said Christine L. Schoaff, Florida’s director of Web administration. “The Web has become the locus of institutional memory.”

Full article in the Chronicle of Higher Education