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Subject:Re: on line indexing From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:34:02 -0700
At 01:39 PM 4/25/97 EDT, Becca wrote:
>Going through my archives, I ran across a copy of a paper by Ralph Earle,
>Robert Berry, and Michelle Corbin Nichols called INdexing Online Information,
>published in the 2nd Quarter 1996 issue of Technical Communication.
>
>I have a number of questions for them about the technology they were
>discussing, and some definitions of terms (how is an online index different
>from the keyword search? I can't tell from the article whether they're talking
>about keyword searches (like using the Search button in Windows 3.1 help
>or the Index tab in Windows 95 help) or whether they mean full text search
>engines).
>
>does anyone know how to contact any of these authors? at the time of
>publication at least, they all worked for IBM.
>
George Hayhoe is the editor. He might know. See his page at http://www.ghayhoe.com for contact information.
--Wayne Douglass
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