Webometric Analyst replaces LexiURL Searcher

Webometric Analyst is the new name for LexiURL Searcher. Along with the name change, Yahoo has been removed (because it shut down its support for program-submitted searches) and link searches have been replaced by URL citation (or title mention) searches. Please visit http://lexiurl.wlv.ac.uk to download Webometric Analyst if you use LexiURL Searcher for link analysis

New version of LexiURL Searcher

The new version of LexiURL Searcher has improved network drawing capabilities (e.g., coloured lines), support for OR searches so that you can automatically combine multiple searches, plus features to search YouTube and generate network digagrams of YouTube users.

Online help manuals

LexiURL Searcher now has upgraded online help manuals and tutorials and its graphing tool SocSciBot Network's manual is online now too.

LexiURL Searcher upgraded

LexiURL Searcher has been upgraded through the addition of a wizard to make the most common types of analyses much easier. The wizard takes care of the choice of search engine, the construction of searches and the processing of the results. The wizard covers web impact reports, link impact reports and network diagrams.

LexiURL Searcher now has its own graphing package too, to draw network diagrams. It also has a built-in reporting facility that builds a mini web site summarising the results of a series of search engine searches.

What is LexiURL Searcher

LexiURL Searcher is a program to automatically download results from commercial search engines (currently Yahoo! and Live Search) via their permitted online process. It also contains many features to process the results for analysis purposes. The plan is to eventually replace LexiURL with LexiURL Searcher.
Some of the LexiURL Searcher features are quite powerful and are restricted from general users either becuase they may waste the time of search engines by submitting too many queries, or becuase they are critical for the Web Audit service provided by the Cybermetrics research group.

Welcome to the LexiURL Searcher Blog

Please post any bugs or problems you have with LexiURL Searcher here - these will help other users to know of any problems and the problems will eventually be picked up and solved by me. Please also feel free to respond to any other users' problems if you know of a solution.