1999 - Volume 2 - Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics

The Nonwoven Web
Beaucoup beaucoup.com 240.
DejaNews deja.com Primarily for news items; limited for other uses. .
DogPile dogpile.com 2
Meta-search engine, which uses other engines to
do simultaneous searching. .
Euroseek euroseek.net 1,160 Focus on European portion of the net. .
Excite excite.com 1,152 An all-purpose engine. .
Google google.com 2,758.
HotBot hotbot.com 1,080
Can use common language; Can specify results
by date, domain, links to an URL. .
InfoSeek infoseek.com 2,073
A hybrid search engine that combines
staff-reviewed sites with search engine results. .
Jeeves ask.com 44
Fair; is a Meta-search engine; in this search it
used Yahoo, Altavista, Webcrawler, Infoseek and
Excite. .
Lycos lycos.com 6
Netscape netscape.com 9 Web browser.
NonwovensWeb nonwovensweb.com 1,344 Industry specific; building database.
NorthernLight northernlight.com 20,033
Not very discriminating; has a special collection
of 2 million articles from many sources. ;
Profusion profusion.com 135 Meta-search engine;
CNet cnet.com 1,260
Snap snap.com 1,200
WebCrawler webcrawler.com Meta-crawler.
Yahoo yahoo.com 62 Good for broad topic search
As a practicality, a search engine can shortly become much more expert and efficient in searching broad topics
of a similar nature. Consequently, some search engines are more useful in dealing with certain topics than with
other topics.
Other search engines are designed to utilize a different search strategy. In some cases the search engine goes
out and utilizes the searching capability of half a dozen other search engines, bringing back the results of their
searching as an answer to the original query. Naturally, the quality of such a search is dependent upon the
specific slave search engines employed.
Also, it should be realized that the nature of searching on the Internet generally results in a substantial time
delay. When a new website is established, it takes time to be incorporated into the database memories of the
popular search engines. It has been estimated that it takes about six months for a new web site to be so
incorporated and to be used in subsequent searches. Consequently, newly constructed sites may be ignored for
several months.
All of this points out another fact of life that should be recognized in organizing a search. This was highlighted
in a recent study published in the scientific journal, Nature (June 1999). This study revealed that the amount of
information being indexed by the commonly used search engines is increasing, but it is not increasing as fast
as the amount of information being put on the web. Unfortunately, this means that the explosive rate at which
information is being placed on the web may actually result in more information being lost to easy public view
than is made available.
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