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The extreme searcher's guide to Web search engines : a handbook for the serious searcher / Randolph Hock ; foreword by Paula Berinstein.

LIBRA ZA4226 .H63 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hock, Randolph, 1944-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Web search engines.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Web search engines
Place of Publication:
Medford, NJ : CyberAge Books, [1999]
Summary:
Hock gives an "under-the-hood" look at such popular search engines as AltaVista, Yahoo!, HotBot, Dogpile, Northern Light, and more. In addition to information on how search engines work, what to realistically expect from a search engine, and search engine add-ons, there are tips and techniques for efficient and effective searching on every page.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Search Engines in General 1
How Search Engines Are Put Together 3
Components of a Typical Search Engine Home Page 8
What to Realistically Expect from Web Search Engines 12
Subject Matter Covered by Search Engines 15
Update Frequency 15
Typical Retrieval and Ranking Factors 16
The Big Question: Relevance Ranking or Boolean Logic? 19
Typical Advanced Search Options 21
Benchmarks 31
Overlap of Retrieval Between Engines 35
Search Engines: Features Guide 36
About the Profiles 42
Chapter 2 AltaVista 45
What Happens Behind the Scenes 46
AltaVista Simple Search 48
AltaVista Advanced Search 50
AltaVista Refine 60
AltaVista's Directory
LookSmart 63
Chapter 3 Excite 69
What Happens Behind the Scenes 71
Search Features 73
Excite's Directory 80
Chapter 4 HotBot 85
What Happens Behind the Scenes 87
HotBot's Search Features: Advanced and Home Page Versions 89
Output 93
HotBot's Directory
LookSmart 97
Chapter 5 Infoseek 101
What Happens Behind the Scenes 102
Search Features: Home Page Version and Advanced 105
Infoseek's Directory 112
Chapter 6 Lycos 117
The Two Versions of Lycos 119
What Happens Behind the Scenes 119
Search Features 119
Lycos' Directory (Web Guides) 127
Chapter 7 Northern Light 131
What Happens Behind the Scenes 133
Search Features 133
Chapter 8 WebCrawler 147
What Happens Behind the Scenes 148
Search Features 149
WebCrawler's Directory 152
Chapter 9 Yahoo! 153
What Happens Behind the Scenes 155
Search Features 156
Yahoo!'s Classifications 161
Chapter 10 Meta-Search Engines: All-in-One Search Pages 165
Dogpile 167
Inference Find 170
Internet Sleuth 172
MetaCrawler 175
ProFusion 178
SavvySearch 180
Other Meta-Search Engines
Other Approaches 182.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0910965269
OCLC:
40052322

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