Benchmarking Web Sites Workshop For Museum New Media Spring School - Search Engine Analysis of Selected Web Sites

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The following table gives a summary of the search engines used on Web sites for participants on the "Leicester Spring School In New Media" which was held at University of Leicester on 20^th April 2005.

A summary of the column headings is given below.

**Table 1: Search Engines Survey for selected Web sites**
	Organisation	Search Engine	Comments	Try It
1	Natural History Museum	Google	Hosted remotely
2	National Museum of Science and Industry	None found
3	The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television	Google	Hosted remotely
4	National Museums and Galleries of Wales	Unknown
5	Cotswold Motoring Museum	Unknown
6	Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium	Unknown
7	Museum of Science And Industry In Manchester	Unknown
8	24 Hour Museum	Unknown
9	MWR	None found
10	Arts and Technology Partnership	None found
11	Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester	ht://Dig
12	Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Open University	None found
13	elearning group for museums and galleries, libraries and archives	None found

The information in the table was collected on 15^th April 2005.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

**Table 2A: Summary**
Search Engine	8	62%
No Search Engine	5	38%
Status not known	0	0%

**Table 2B: Software Name**
Google	2	15%
ht://DIg	1	8%
Unknown	5	38%