AltaVista Strange Results

Barbara Stewart stew at library.umass.edu
Wed Nov 12 08:29:36 EST 1997


Really though, what possible difference can it make to a user if there are
30,000 or 50,000 hits? I defy *anyone* to show me a student who tracked
down even 2,000 hits, let alone these larger numbers. What matters here is
relevancy, not numerical sameness....
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Barbara Stewart, Latin American Cataloger
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
(413)545-2728
stew at library.umass.edu



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