Document (#13553)

Author

Watson, I.

Title

Searching the WWW : a quick comparison of Infoseek, Lycos, Yahoo, InfoMarket and Webcrawler

Source

Managing information. 3(1996) no.1, S.38-39

Year

1996

Abstract

Provides an example of use of WWW search tools in order to obtain more information on a particular subject, in this instance on Robert Burns and Auld Lang Syne. The tools search included Infoseek, Lycos, Yahoo, InfoMarket and Webcrawler

Theme

Suchmaschinen

Object

Infoseek
Lycos
InfoMarket
Yahoo
Webcrawler

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