|
|
Article: Search Engines: Do They Answer Your Questions?(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Information Advisor
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 Find/SVP. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Search engines remain one of the hottest aspect of the Internet. Information professionals and laypersons, businesspersons and consumers, adults and children--all of us regularly turn to search engines as a giant question-answering, or even omniscient "problem-solving," machine. "Let's check the Internet" is what we all hear more and more when there's a question to answer or a problem to figure out.
For several months, we subscribed to a daily news alert service that delivered headlines and short abstracts of newspaper, journals and wire service stories about search engines. We thought it would be an interesting exercise to review the last couple of months of ...