Thought that this might interest ya'll.
Lynn Roberts
Information Technologist
Hart County Library
150 Benson Street, Hartwell, GA 30643
Phone:(706)376-4655 Fax: (706)376-1157
E-mail:robertsa at mail.hart.public.lib.ga.us
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From: USC-CLIS -- USC's College of Library and Information Science
LISTSERV [mailto:USC-CLIS at VM.SC.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Barron
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 10:08 AM
To: USC-CLIS at VM.SC.EDU
Subject: Web intell
MOST OF THE WEB'S WIDE WORLD IS OFF THE MAP
A study by the NEC Research Institute has found that the vast majority of
600 million Web pages open to the public are not indexed by search engines.
The report -- which be can be found at http://www.wwwmetrics.com/ -- says
the top search engines in terms of coverage are Northern Light (covering 16%
of the Web), Snap (15.5%), AltaVista (15.5%), Hotbot (11.3%). Other search
engine coverage figures are: Microsoft (8.5%), Infoseek (8%), Google
(7.8%), Yahoo (7.4%), Excite (5.6%), Lycos (2.5%), and Euroseek (2.2%). The
search engines seem to be biased toward sites that receive the most traffic,
and use a site's popularity to decide whether it should be indexed. The
study also says that 83% of the Web now contains commercial content, 6%
offers information of scientific or educational value, and 1.5% is focused
on pornography. (New York Times 8 Jul 99)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/circuits/articles/08geek.html
Dan Barron
College of Library and Information Science
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
v:803/777-4825 f:7938
Dan.Barron at SC.Edu
http://www.LibSci.sc.edu/dan/dan.htm
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