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Term counts used in this tutorial are based on the AltaVista Advanced Search option [http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq]. Actual term counts were obtained by posing the query indicated using the 'Give me only a precise count of matches.' checkbox on this page. Term counts were taken on April 24, 1998; they were completely updated on May 6, 1999. |
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The directory engine used for this tutorial is Yahoo! [http://www.yahoo.com/]. |
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Nua, April, 1999 |
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Nua; T. Miller, "Interactive Demographics," presented at the ANA Conference, New York City, April 8, 1997. |
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CyberAtlas, December, 1998. |
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MediaMetrix, April 1999, http://www.mediametrix.com/usa/data/thetop.jsp |
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CyberAtlas, November 1998. |
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Georgia Tech's 10th Graphic, Visualization and Usability Survey, October 1998. |
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TWTC, The Web-Tools Company Business Plan, May 1999, 43 pp. |
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Internet World, Sept. 28, 1998. |
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S. Lawrence and C.L. Giles, "Accessibility of Information on the Web," Nature magazine, v. 400, pp. 107-109, July 1999. |
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S. Lawrence and C.L. Giles, "Searching the World Wide Web," Science magazine, v. 280, April 3, 1998, pp. 98-100.
http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/lawrence/websize.html |
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See http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1937/com1937.htm |
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IDC Web Index, July 1997. |
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See http://www.beaucoup.com/ |
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Other sources for search engine listings besides beaucoup.com are: http://www.searchpower.com, http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.html, and http://www.finderseeker.com. VisualMetrics believes the combined listings from these services to exceed 3,000. However, other known, specialty search sites are NOT included in these listings. Perhaps across the entire Internet there are 10,000 or more useful sites with search capabilities. |
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Additonal NEC Research information may be found at: http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/lawrence/websize.html. |
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US Department of Commerce, "The Emerging Digital Economy," April 15, 1998. |
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One of the best discussions about metatags can be found on the Virtual Promote site: http://www.virtualpromote.com/metatag.html |
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G. Salton, Automatic Text Processing: The Transformation, Analysis, and Retrieval of Information by Computer, Addison Wesley, 1989 |
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See http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/whatsnew/sem.html |
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If you'd like to see these hidden tags on a given Web document, save the document while viewing in your browser using the 'Save As' option on your browser's 'File' menu option. Then, view that document with a text editor or Wordpad. You will see these hidden fields shown in HTML brackets (e.g., <Description= ...>). |
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These terms were coined by Barbara Quint; see further: (fourth bullet point under the subhead "Super searchers share their secrets") http://www.anu.edu.au/CNASI/pubs/OnDisc95/docs/ONL34.html. |
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This article presents results of searching on conventional search databases, such as Dialog, versus the Internet: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/feb98/story1.htm |
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B. Pinkerton, "Finding What People Want: Experiences with WebCrawler" found at: http://info.webcrawler.com/bp/WWW94.html |
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See http://niko.unl.edu/bs101/notes/lecture19.html |
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Encarta 96 Encyclopedia, Microsoft, c. 1995 |
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The Original Roget's Thesaurus, St. Martin's Press, 1962. |
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University of Minnesota Raptor Center, http://www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu/ |
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See http://altos.rnd.runnet.ru/internet/logic.html |
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Based on using the ranking option for all search keywords in the order shown in the query. |
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See http://raysweb.net/specialplaces/ |
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See http://www.deev.com/falcons/live-falcons.html |
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See http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/odnr/wildlife/publications/peregrine/falcon.html |
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See http://www.wwfcanada.org/facts/peregrin.html |
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This link requires Java; most browsers have it. |
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A complete listing of country two-letter domain codes can be found at: http://www.thrall.org/domains.htm |
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This estimate comes from using the 'anchor' search option in AltaVista by issuing the search anchor:"method=" AND anchor:"action=", which returns 11,000 hits on this service. Results were then spot checked to determine that search forms appeared on the results pages; most did. Since AltaVista incompletely indexes the Web, the total amount is likely much higher. |
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Search Engine Watch is a very useful, authoritative site on all aspects of search engines. It is found at: http://www.searchenginewatch.com. Highly recommended. |
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This calculation is based on information presented in Figure 2 of reference [11]. |
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See further, S. Feldman, "Just the Answers, Please: Choosing a Web Search Service,' Searcher magazine, May 1997. This article is no longer online. However, other useful references may be found at http://www.infotoday.com/searcher. |
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See http://www.mediametrix.com/TopRankings/TopRankings.html. Some domains include other services than search; however, as many large services have also become portals, the rankings are still comparable. |
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See http://www.notess.com/search/stats/. |
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This service has added nearly 500 engine listings in the past year, most in the 'regional' categories. |
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Clifford Lynch, "Searching the Internet", Scientific American, March 1997. |
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"Recommended Search Strategy: Search With Peripheral Vision," issued by the Teaching Library Internet Workshops from UC Berkeley, found at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html |
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See http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Netguides/strategies.html |
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See http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/default.htm |
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The Steinberg article may be found at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.05/indexweb.html |
