Forschungsportal.Net
Forschungsportal.Net was a search engine for the scientific area of the World Wide Web .
The search engine - like the meta search engine Metager - was developed by the University of Hanover on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with a grant of 600,000 euros and presented to the public in September 2002. When searching, only websites of state-funded scientific organizations and research institutes such as universities , colleges , the Fraunhofer Society , the Max Planck Society etc. or the German Library (dissertation search ) are considered. The search results are listed under the respective institutions. Forschungsportal.Net searched 27,000 web servers with 12 million websites. In addition, the search engine scoured the websites of projects funded by the BMBF.
Today, a science blog is operated under the domain that provides information on research and research funding in Germany.
In Switzerland, various universities and the ETH Zurich link their research data and projects in the joint portal with the search interface Forschungsportal.ch .
See also: Deep Web
criticism
Criticism of the search engine is mainly based on the fact that mostly only the home pages of the universities are indexed, but not the pages of individual institutes or chairs. This means that the actual research is not covered.
Web links
- http://www.forschungsportal.net/
- http://www.forschungsportal.ch/
- Research portal released as search engine (blog post 2005)
- Search and find in the "invisible net" press article 2003