The Index is no exception. HTTP server logs have been kept and analysed, as well as Harvest queries, and survey results. Survey results In an attempt to get feedback, a survey was created. Most of the people answering the survey were academic librarians. To most people the Index returned the expected results and would like to see the Index continue.
Pie charts illustrating the survey results are available online.
The public comments and anonymous comments were very interesting to read. Most of them liked the service but were wondering whether or not the layout of the search results could be improved. Desite the fact that the Index has been searched at least 3,000 times, only 100 surveys have been recived. Based on this data, and a look at the searches themselves, it is evident people are using single terms or non-quoted phrases as their primary means of searching the Index. This is unfortunate becuase Harvest provides quite robust searching syntax including field searching, truncation, compound searches, and truncation.