Search Engines - Ref. list

[Rowan Brownlee]

Hello,

Below is a list of some sites containing articles, papers, 
evaluations and descriptions of various search engines. 

I started with the Berkeley Public Library Search page at 

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bpl/bkmk/search.html

I also quickly searched the web4lib archive at 

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html



Alta Vista vs. Lycos
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/ariadne/issue2/engines/
Article from Ariadne
(comparison done at the end of February/start of March 1996). 

Evaluating Quality on the Net
http://challenge.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html
This is an updated version of "Evaluating the Quality of Information
on the Internet or Finding a Needle in a Haystack" delivered at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government,  Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, September 6, 1995.

Find It On The Net
http://www.pcworld.com/reprints/lycos.htm
>From the January 1996 Issue of PC World

Internet resource evaluation: A discussion of review sites
http://www.wilpaterson.edu/home/staff/kwagner/eval.htm
"What follows is a discussion of three Internet resources which, in
turn, provide evaluation of Internet resources. As the numbers of
Internet sites continue to increase by hundreds of thousands per year,
such evaluative tools will become increasingly important for the
conduct of useful and effective information gathering from this
medium." Magellan - McKinley's Internet Directory Point GNN (Global
Network Navigator) Voices -   Web Review

Internet: Search Engines: Powering Through the Internet
http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/features/internet/search/index.html
Neil Randall
>From PC Computing, September 1995
Reviews and rates 14 major search engines.

Searching the World Wide Web with Lycos and InfoSeek
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ucs/docs/fur14/fur14.html
"This document aims to provide a comparison between the Lycos search
tool and the InfoSeek search tool, and attempts to ascertain which
tool provides the most effective mechanism for searching WWW
resources, using a number of different indicators."

Web Matrix: What's the Difference?
http://www.sils.umich.edu/~fprefect/matrix/answers.html
Describes differences between subject directories and search engines
3/4/96 

Web Search Strategies
http://www.mispress.com/websearch/webstoc.html
Table of Contents from Carole Leita's new book.  Chapter 4 is online

World Wide Web Indexes - a Study
http://www.winona.msus.edu/services-f/library-f/webind.htm
Article evaluating Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler and WWWWorm.
Includes later comments and criticism of the study

World Wide Web searching tools - an evaluation
http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/IWinship.html
Article that compares and evaluates the World Wide Web Worm, Web
Crawler, Lycos, Harvest, Galaxy and Yahoo
This paper appears in VINE (99) 1995, 49-54

Internet Search Tool Details (Digital Library SunSITE)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Help/searchdetails.html
Explanatory information provided by a number of the major search
tools.  Includes type of databases, contents, search options, update
frequency and how results are displayed. Covers : | Yahoo | Galaxy |
Alta Vista | Infoseek Guide | Open Text Web Index | Lycos | Last
update 1/23/96

List and Analysis of Web Robots
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/general/robots.htm
Last update: 3/1/96

The Matrix
http://www.sils.umich.edu/~fprefect/matrix/matrix.shtml
"This collection represents my evaluation and opinion of many of the
most popular Web search engines and subject catalogs. Although ideally
suited as a guide for the Internet novice, it also serves as a
checklist for experienced netsurfer's and information specialists who
want specific features or value-added services." Information, links to
and evaluations of approx 30 subject catalogues and search engines
4/5/96

The ZD Net Trailblazer: Internet Search Sites
http://www.zdnet.com/zdi/tblazer/iserch.html

Understanding WWW Search Tools
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/search/
An overview of some of the major search engines.  Lists features and
includes comments and tips for searching First Draft: September 1995
First Update: February 1996 

Robots in the Web: threat or treat?
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/threat-or-treat.html
Reprinted with permission from ConneXions, Volume 9, No. 4, April
1995. 

Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html
This page is devoted to learning as much about spiders, their uses and
problems.

Rowan Brownlee
CD-ROM Librarian
General Reference Library
State Library of New South Wales
Macquarie St. Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
rowanb at ilanet.slnsw.gov.au