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Web Search Services in 1998: Trends and Challenges.

Feldman, Susan – Searcher, 1998

Charts the trends and challenges that 1998 has brought to popular search engines such as AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, and Northern Light. Highlights testing strategies used, use of real (not artificial) intelligence, innovations, online market pressures, barriers to use, and tips and recommendations. (AEF)

Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Human Resources, Information Services, Information Technology

The Internet Search-Off.

Feldman, Susan – Searcher, 1998

Presents results from a collective professional searcher evaluation of the effectiveness of Web search engines versus two traditional online services, DIALOG and Dow Jones Interactive. The conclusion outlines: searching assumptions; subjects and types of searches where DIALOG and Dow Jones Interactive showed superiority; advantages of using the…

Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Information Services, Information Sources