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Article: Web search engines: search syntax and features.(Illustration)
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- September 1, 2002
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BEGINNING WITH THE May/June 1999 issue, ONLINE has published a chart, authored by Ran Hock, detailing the search features inherent in Web search engines. To some extent, the idea was grounded in early Command Language Charts ONLINE published almost 2 decades ago, when the "search engines" were BRS, Dialog, ORBIT, and the like.
Looking back at previous charts makes the volatility in the contemporary world of search engines particularly evident. The first chart included seven search engines, most of which had a simple and an advanced interface. These seven were AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Northern Light, and WebCrawler. Several of those are no ...