Cree, J.S.; LeBruin, R.: ¬The search for the best engine (1998)
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- Abstract
- Provides an evaluation on the performance of several search engines in searching for several target home pages in the Health subject area. Searches were made on 7 frequently user search engines (AltaVista, Infoseek, AOL NetFind, HotBot, Excite, Lycos and Yahoo) and 5 less frequently used search engines (Electric Library, LookSmart, CNET, DISCOVER, MetaCrawler)