{"id":570,"date":"2009-02-13T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T20:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T20:24:33","slug":"new-life-for-the-operations-research-resources-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/13\/new-life-for-the-operations-research-resources-page\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life for the Operations Research Resources Page?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have previously written<\/a> about my frustration handling the INFORMS OR\/MS Resources Page<\/a>.\u00a0 I wrote:<\/p>\n

As announced last year, it is unclear whether this resource page will continue. On one hand I started this back in 1994, so it is sad to see it go after 15 years. On the other hand, the internet has changed a lot since then. There was no Google back then, so simply finding stuff was hard to do. Now, it seems that the age of \u201chand edited\u201d links is at an end (if it wasn\u2019t so five years ago). Keeping these pages up to date is ferociously difficult. And the spammers are unrelenting (and I don\u2019t have the heart to change software again to combat them). So, there is every possibility that these pages will go away on April 15, 2009.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jim Orlin<\/a> may well have made the suggestion to save the Resources Page.\u00a0 In short, he suggests combining the strengths of the Resources Page with the strengths of Google<\/a>.\u00a0 We can use the URLs within the resources page to seed a specialized google search.\u00a0 I have tried to do this in the past (in fact, long before google with my own crawlers) but it never worked quite right.\u00a0 Google seems to have it right now.<\/p>\n

I see a number of real advantages of this approach.\u00a0 For the user, when you want OR\/MS pages, they need not be lost in the long google output.\u00a0 For the Resources page, if you want to show up on the search, you need to keep the URL up to date and accurate.\u00a0 The searches will be better because the URLs will be verified as OR\/MS relevant.\u00a0 Overall, I think this is the change that could breath new life into the Resources Page.<\/p>\n

Want to check out the search?\u00a0 I’m still working on it, before I put it on the resources page, but here it is in an experimental version:<\/p>\n

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