Magellan

Provider: McKinley Group, Inc.
Browsable index: Yes
Search capabilities: Yes, the "Magellan System"
Item submission method: Human and robot
Editorial function: Yes
Annotated: Yes
FAQ: Yes, for the product, on the home page under "About Us." Yes, for the search engine, on the home page under "Help."

The Magellan database of online resources, provided by the McKinley Group, Inc., is populated by submission and robot. A percentage of the resources are well annotated and rated with one to four stars. A powerful search engine accesses the rated as well as unrated sites. Boolean AND/OR/NOT searching, phrase, proximity, and truncation searching, as well as ratings level searching is available. Ratings are based on depth and currency of content, ease of exploration, and Net Appeal, which translates into "innovative, appealing, funny, hot, hip, or thought-provoking." Resources are evaluated and annotated by professional writers and editors. A browsable subject index of over 25 major categories is provided, as well as detailed FAQs for both the site and the search engine.


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