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Subject:Re: info about web searchers From:Denise Lystad <lystad -at- LYNDEN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:16:43 -0700
At 08:56 AM 7/6/98 +1000, you wrote:
>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.
>
Margaret,
You could always try www.dogpile.com. It uses all the major search
engines simultaneously: lycos, yahoo, altavista, etc. It sorts
the matches by search engine, giving you the option of pursuing
the thread in one search engine or another, or all of them if you
prefer.
