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Article: Internet power searching: finding pearls in a zillion grains of sand.
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- Information Outlook
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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During the past two years, web content has expanded enormously. Global access to hundreds of government resources and agencies worldwide, more than 1,400 Internet-based online public access catalogs (OPACs) from libraries on every continent[1], professional and trade associations, and experts in millions of subjects are just a few examples of categories of information not readily found online in the past. As the Internet erupted, search engines, metasearch engines, and intelligent agents with value-added features came on the Scene and gradually began to refine their offerings, turning information retrieval into a more organized process than ever before. Traditional vendors ...