More on search engines

[DEANNE LUCK]

There is a review article comparing AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, 
Infoseek, Lycos, and Northern Light in the latest (Dec. 97) issue
of Internet World.  They give "Best of Test" to AltaVista, with
HotBot second.

Regarding some of the questions/comments posted here, they note that in 
Infoseek you can run a search within an initial result set.  And
in Lycos, you can customize how it does the relevancy rankings.
They also liked Northern Light, recommending it for "serious
researchers".

Personally, I've found NL's Custom Search Folders to be very helpful
in the few searches I've run in it.

DeAnne Luck
Electronic Resources Librarian
Austin Peay State University
LuckDL at apsu01.apsu.edu