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Abstract

Compares the features and performance of 6 Web search engines: AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos and Northern Light; 2 metasearch engines: Savvy Search and Inference Find; and the question answering system Ask Jeeves. Results of a standard set of 10 questions posed to each service show little overlap between search engines, so it is important to use more than one Web search engine if a comprehensive search is needed. Discusses technology trends and makes recommendations for Web searching. More and better information has become available on the Web in 1998 and each major search engine is developing a niche market and its own personality

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Offers advice on choosing a WWW search engine. Offers advice on controlling a WWW search. Tests 7 search engines with real questions: AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Inference Find, Infoseek, Lycos and OpenText. Details the results of the tests. Summarizes views on each search engine. Excite and Infoseek were rated as best, but search effectiveness varies from topic to topic. Most searches require use of more than 1 engine

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Search Engine Watch is a WWW meta site giving organized, up-to-date information on WWW search engines. It is mostly free with a $25 charge for extra subscriber services. It has valuable links to a wide variety of other resources and charts comparing services. Despite its informality and idiosyncrasies of an individually sponsored service, it is an useful site

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Reprots the results of a study which sought indications of the effectiveness of searching for information on the WWW versus the traditional online vendors, for comparisons of how it took to search, and for comments on the relative value of the results retrieved. Professional searchers were invited to search for answers to the same questions on both the WWW and on either DIALOG or Dow Jones Interactive. Overall DIALOG / Dow Jones Interactive retrieved more relevant documents and total searching time was more than double for finding information on the Web. Summarizes the comments from searchers on: searching assumptions of professional searchers; the subjects and types of searches for which DIALOG and Dow Jones Interactive showed superiority; areas where the Web has advantages over traditional online services; and uses for which both traditional online vendors and the Web can supplement each other. Lists nine searching principles for maximizing success when using Web search engines

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Compares online searching of DIALOG (a traditional Boolean system), TARGET (a relevance ranking system) and DR-LINK (an advanced intelligent text processing system), in order to establish the differing strengths of traditional and natural language processing search systems. Details example search queries used in comparison and how each of the systems performed. Considers the implications of the findings for professional information searchers and end users. Natural language processing systems are useful because they develop an wider understanding of queries that use of traditional systems may not

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