Search Engine Analysis

[Paul Hamilton]

Dear  Nicholas,
Is the URL correct? My browser didn't recognise it. Sounds like a great
resource.

Regards,
Paul



At 10:24 AM 16/05/96 -0700, Nick Tomaiuolo/CCSU Library wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>A quick post to alert you to a quantitative study recently added to the Web.
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>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
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>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
>
>email=  tomaiuolon at ccsu.ctstateu.edu
>phone=  (860) 832-2068
>fax=    (860) 832-3409
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Paul Hamilton
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