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Article: Evaluating Web Search Engines: This guide can help users sort out these resources and use them effectively. (Book Review).
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- Information Today
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- January 1, 2002
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The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher, 2nd edition by Randolph Hock
Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2001
ISBN: 0-910965-47-1
241 pages
$24.95
Now that the Web is home to hundreds of millions of separate pages, how on earth can an information professional find anything there? Sure, there's a lot more information available to us, but slogging through a thousand or so Web pages to find what you need isn't possible. To help with this dilemma, the Web search engine was created. The first one, WebCrawler, debuted in 1994. According to Randolph Hock in the first edition of his book The ...