Web Search Engines "Made Simple"

[Saroj Bhatia]

Hi all,
Very interesting discussion about Web Search Engines. I use METACRAWLER Search
Engine which search all engines and remove duplicates and give ncomprehansive
results. Try   http://www.metacrawler.com



Mary-Ellen Mort wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Linda Absher wrote:
> > I recently did a search on AltaVista and came up with no *no* results; I
> > was surprised since I've done the search before on AltaVista and came up
> > with at least five items.  I hit the search button again and got the five;
> > this made me curious so I hit the button again:  this time nine items were
> > retrieved.
>
> I wasn't going to bring this up. But Linda's experience gives me courage.
> Last week I taught a class and a student and I entered EXACTLY the same
> altavista search and got different results (I got something like 2,000
> postings and she got something like 600) ...I checked carefully that the
> searches WERE identical--they were--and then I just had to shrug my
> shoulders and move on with the class.
>
> How often do we get a chance to do simultaneous duplicate searches?
>
> I have also had experiences with excite where, as I work through a long
> set of results, the number of matching sites changes wildly from page to
> page.
>
> As someone pointed out earlier, you get what you pay for. I guess we can
> ask for our money back.
>
> Mary-Ellen Mort
> JobSmart Project Director
> http://jobsmart.org


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