{"id":18545,"date":"2017-02-03T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:32:03","slug":"findlectures-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/findlectures-com\/","title":{"rendered":"findlectures.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findlectures.com\/?q=%22cave%20art%22&amp;p=1&amp;\">Lecture Search at findlectures.com<\/a> is a new search tool, or at least it&#8217;s new to me.  It appears to have launched in the summer of 2016, which is probably why I missed its launch.  In the UK it would have been drowned out by the news of our glorious Brexit.  <\/p>\n<p>Lecture Search aims to find &#8216;intelligent talk&#8217; files such as conference and academic lectures, and it does what it claims.  A few early observations:<\/p>\n<p>* Seems to be running from a hand-curated URL list.  There&#8217;s evidence in the results that the last indexing run may have been in early 2016?<\/p>\n<p>* Includes YouTube and Vimeo as sources but seems to have a filter on them, presumably via indexing only selected channels.  <\/p>\n<p>* Searchers should use <strong>NOT keyword<\/strong> rather than <strong>-keyword<\/strong> to knock out search words from results. <\/p>\n<p>* Nice range of limiting facets, in the sidebar. <\/p>\n<p>* One annoying pop-up nag-box, but it was easily killed with AdBlock Plus&#8217;s &#8220;select an element to hide&#8230;&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>* Relevance ranking is definitely not Google-licious, as it the case for all such Summon-like services.  For instance: search for &#8220;cave art&#8221;, get &#8220;The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo&#8221; as the first result.  That page&#8217;s text happens to mention Vallejo once did some research on &#8220;cave art&#8221;, but then presumably the prestige of the result&#8217;s loc.gov URL lifts the result up to No.1.<\/p>\n<p>* Not indexing the BBC&#8217;s hundreds of In Our Time .mp3 podcasts, which seems a pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Search at findlectures.com is a new search tool, or at least it&#8217;s new to me. It appears to have &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/02\/03\/findlectures-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}