Funnelback at LSE

Presents an overview of LSE's deployment and use of the Funnelback search facility. »
Stephen Emmott

Funnelback at LSE
LSE website (www|www2.lse.ac.uk)
LSE website (*.lse.ac.uk)
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Staff and students
Library
LSE Research Online (eprints.lse.ac.uk)
Academic departments and research centres
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Department of Accounting
Department of Anthropology
Department of Economic History
Department of Economics
Department of Finance
Department of Geography and Environment
Department of Government
Department of International History
Department of International Relations
Department of Law
Department of Management
Department of Mathematics
Department of Media and Communications
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Department of Social Policy
Department of Sociology
Department of Statistics
Development Studies Institute (DESTIN)
European Institute
Gender Institute
Institute of Social Psychology
Language Centre
Methodology Institute
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Asia Research Centre
Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)
Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS)
Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BIOS)
Centre for the Study of Human Rights Financial Markets Group (FMG)
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI)
IDEAS: Diplomacy and Strategy @ LSE
International Growth Centre (IGC)
LSE Cities
LSE Global Governance
LSE Health and Social Care
Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC)
Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)
Launched 21 January 2010
Procure and deploy CMS - Jun '06 to Jul '08

Migrate LSE website to CMS - Oct '08 to ...

Review LSE website - N0v '08 to Apr '09

New LSE website - May '09 to Nov '09

Enhance LSE website - Jan '10 to ...
Access-restricted searches
Localised variants of search facility (eg Public events)
To do
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/timetables/: 4,628
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/termDates/Home.aspx: 2,949
http://moodle.lse.ac.uk/: 2,170
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/itservices/home.aspx: 1,887
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/lifeAtLSE/accommodation/accommodationforStudents.aspx: 1,721
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/timetables/Home.aspx: 1,668
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/careersService/Home.aspx: 1,639
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm: 1,413
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/humanResources/recruitment/jobsAtLSE/Home.aspx: 1,412
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/Home.aspx: 1,357
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/: 1,303
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/tableOfFees/: 1,284
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/management/: 1,239
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx: 1,179
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/openDaysAndEvents/openDaysAndEvents.aspx: 1,161
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/itservices/remote/filesAndResources/email.aspx: 1,152
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/CareersAndVacancies/home.aspx: 1,144
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/itservices/guides/OnlineGuides/LSE-Wallet.aspx: 1,100
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/: 1,041
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/itservices/guides/OnlineGuides/Online-Printing-Payment.aspx: 990

g"17" (LSE website): 418,996
2+" (): 55,622
g"16" (www|www2.lse.ac.uk): 21,414
No scope (): 18,399
3+" (): 14,851
g"19" (www2.lse.ac.uk/library/): 8,061
g"18" (www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/): 2,020
g"70" (www2.lse.ac.uk/BJS/): 968
g"72" (www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/itservices/about/policies/): 789
g"20" (\.lse\.ac\.uk): 622
g"44" (econ.lse.ac.uk/): 496
g"52" (www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/): 458
g"53" (www.lse.ac.uk/collections/management/): 334
g"46" (www2.lse.ac.uk/finance/): 244
g"59" (www2.lse.ac.uk/sociology/): 199
g"50" (www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalRelations/): 197
g"40" (www2.lse.ac.uk/accounting/): 165
g"48" (www2.lse.ac.uk/government/): 113
g"58" (www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/): 97
g"42" (www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN/): 91

search check: 9,237
sitealarm: 8,167
timetables: 4,128
Search the LSE website: 4,006
exam timetable: 3,671
timetable: 3,430
term dates: 2,764
moodle: 2,318
economics: 2,121
careers: 2,041
mba: 1,461
lse for you: 1,440
law: 1,430
email: 1,398
past exam papers: 1,371
fees: 1,359
jobs: 1,210
library: 1,205
accommodation: 1,198
careers service: 1,183

Issues arising
Deployment on VM servers and impact on performance.
Resisting the temptation to fiddle.
Improving quality of content and IA - grasping the nettle.
Analysing usage
C-Test
Keymatches
"Benchmark" queries
Click paths
Q
uestions
Analysing crawls

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