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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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