What flavor is your search engine?(Techman's Techpage)(Column) From: Computers in Libraries | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 Information Today, Inc. 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) Copyright information

Search engines index and retrieve information stored on the INternet an World Wide Web, and in recent years several different types of engines have evolved. Most use keyword text searching and allow for combinations of terms to refine a search. Search engines including Yahoo!, THOMAS, Argos, Internet FastFind and MetaCrawler are discussed and differences explained.

Meta-search engines. Intranet search engines. Limited area search engines. Subject lists. Directories. Specialty indexes. It seems that the varieties of databases and search engines are proliferating almost as quickly as ...

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