Nasa

David King dlking at ocean.st.usm.edu
Thu Jul 3 16:43:39 EDT 1997


>> > I just typed in "nasa" without "www" or "com" or "gov" and guess
>> > where netscape took me? To the commercial site, not the gov site.

>  What were you using to search for this. I tried using Altavista with the
>search term Nasa. I only checked the titles of the first 30 sites that the
>search engine found and I didn't see the .com site. How did you find the
>site so fast or am I doing something wrong.

I went to "Open" on Netscape 4.0 and simply typed in "nasa," and then
hit enter. And my version of Netscape chose the com site over the gov
site. 

Not really sure why it chose to default to one over the other. 

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David King
Electronic Services Librarian
University of Southern Mississippi
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