Hock, R.E.: Sizing up HotBot : evaluating one Web search engine's capabilities (1997)
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- Abstract
- Evaluates HotBot, a powerful well-designed WWW search engine. It provides basic Boolean capabilities, rlevance ranking and decent output options. Features are presented with option windows, checkboxes and buttons. It includes a strong Save Search feature, special feature searching, and searching for links to this URL. Users can slao search recent Usenet postings. Describes the search functionality, output options, customisation, and documentation. Assesses its strengths and weaknesses. It is a good end user choice