UNDERSTANDING AND COMPARING WEB SEARCH TOOLS
Beyond Surfing: Tools and Techniques for Searching the Web[1]
by Kathleen Webster & Kathryn Paul, January 1996
General Internet Resource Finding Tools:[2]
A Review and List of Those Used to Build INFOMINE, March 1996
How to Search the Web - A Guide to Search Tools"[3]
by Terry A. Gray
Jacob Hausauer's Page for Search Engines[4]
March, 1996
Literature about search services
by Traugott Koch
Reviews of Search Engines[5] from the Search Page.
June 1996
Search Engine Reference List[6]
by Rowan Brownlee, April 1996
from Web4Lib
Understanding WWW Search Tools[7]
Jian Liu, September 1995, February 1996
This page describes some of features and drawbacks of various search
tools
UCB Library Internet Search Tool Details[8]
Library, University of California, Berkeley, November 1995
This list includes information on the size of each search engine's
database.
World Wide Web Indexes: a study[9]
H. Vernon Leighton, June 1995
This paper compares the performance of four major search
engines:Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, and WWWWorm.
World Wide Web Searching Tools, An Evaluation[10]
Ian Winship, 1995
This evaluation compares four search engines, Lycos, WebCrawler,
WWWorm, and Harvest, and two Subject Trees with search engines,
Yahoo and EiNet Galaxy
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[1] http://magi.com/~mmelick/it96jan.htm
[2] http://lib-www.ucr.edu/pubs/navigato.html
[3] http://issfw.palomar.edu/Library/TGSEARCH.HTM
[4] http://bingen.cs.csbsju.edu:80/~jwhausau/
[5] http://www.accesscom.com/~ziegler/search.html#search_reviews
[6] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9604/0103.html
[7] http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/search/
[8] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Help/searchdetails.html
[9] http://www.winona.msus.edu/services-f/library-f/webind.htm
[10] http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/IWinship.html