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(under "How do you find information on the Web", and "Description of
search engines")
Doug V.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Gerard [SMTP:margaret -at- CSDC -dot- TOSHIBA -dot- COM -dot- AU]
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 1998 3:57 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: info about web searchers
>
> I'm looking for information about web search engines eg.
> lycos, yahoo, altavista etc. I want to know what exists and
> how each works; how the results a user gets differs according
> to which search engine is being used etc. etc. etc.
>
> Can anyone point me to some good sources of info on this
> subject?
>
> Thanks,
> Margaret Gerard
> Sydney, Australia
>
>
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