www-typology

[Earl Young]

     Work on general categorization of popular search engines appears in 
     the Jesse Berst columns (a series of five) on zdnet.com.  Berst is a 
     columnist for Ziff-Davis, and the archives (I do not know the URL 
     offhand) go back a ways.  His columns on the subject appeared last 
     May/June as I recall.  The material is a little dated, but he does go 
     into the three major types of search engines and describes why the 
     types are different from each other.
     
     Earl Young


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: www-typology
Author:  Nils.Pharo at jbi.hioslo.no at INTERNET
Date:    4/25/97 10:22 AM


Hello,
I am a doctoral student working on the topic of user's search 
strategies in the World Wide Web, I would like to put forward a 
question concerning the different types of services on the web. I am 
trying to classify different services with respect to their form, 
content, ownership etc., and I am curious as to whether such work 
have been done by others previously and would be glad to get any 
information about this.
     
So far I am aware of the OCLC's Netfirst database's document types 
and the "Dublin Core Standard Resource Types", as well as the 
different search engines' and "Web subject indices'" content 
categories. 
     
Do any of you know about similar work done in this area?
     
Hopefully yours
Nils
************************************************************************* 
Research Fellow Nils Pharo
Email: Nils.Pharo at jbi.hioslo.no 
http://bibin.p52.hioslo.no/nils/
Telephone +47 22 45 26 84 Fax +47 22 45 26 05
Oslo College, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science 
Pilestredet 52 N-0167 Oslo, NORWAY