(Fwd) Search Engine Analysis

["Klaus Peter Hommes" <HOMMES _at__ hbz-nrw.de>]

Fuer die Beurteilung von fuenf Web-Suchmaschinen duerfte folgenden 
Verweis auf eine amerikanische Untersuchung, die von Oktober bis 
Dezember 1995 durchgefuehrt wurde, von Interesse sein.

Forwarded by Klaus Peter Hommes
Stadtbuechereien Duesseldorf
hommes _at__ hbz-nrw.de

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Date:          Tue, 21 May 1996 16:10:00 -0700
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From:          Kuny Terry <txk _at__ ITS.NLC-BNC.CA>
Subject:       Search Engine Analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

A quick post to alert you to a quantitative study recently added to
the Web.

Joan G. Packer, Head of Reference and I presented a paper at
February's Computers in Libraries conference concerning the average
number of relevant hits from the first ten retrieved that five typical
search engines/ directories yielded.  That paper will appear in an
augmented form in June's _Computers in Libraries_.  Meanwhile, a table
which is too lengthy to insert in the article can be perused at

http://neal.ctstateu.edu:2001/htdocs/websearch.html

It details the search query topics and the yield for each engine
investigated.

Thank you,

Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, MLS
Bibliographic Instruction Librarian
Central Connecticut State University Library
Reference Department
New Britain, CT  06050

email=  tomaiuolon _at__ ccsu.ctstateu.edu
phone=  (860) 832-2068
fax=    (860) 832-3409