Search Engine Analysis

[Nick Tomaiuolo/CCSU Library]

Dear Colleagues,

A quick post to alert you to a quantitative study recently added to the Web.

Joan G. Packer, Head of Reference and I presented a paper at February's
Computers in Libraries conference concerning the average number of relevant
hits from the first ten retrieved that five typical search engines/
directories yielded.  That paper will appear in an augmented form in
June's _Computers in Libraries_.  Meanwhile, a table which is too lengthy
to insert in the article can be perused at

http://neal.ctstateu:2001/htdocs/websearch.html

It details the search query topics and the yield for each engine investigated.

Thank you,

Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, MLS
Bibliographic Instruction Librarian
Central Connecticut State University Library
Reference Department
New Britain, CT  06050

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