Lost in cyberspace/ Array of Internet search engines produces wildly different results

From: The Gazette | Date: February 27, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

HotBot and Google are not the next generation of toys that will usurp Pokemon and Furby. They are just two of the more than 3,000 search engines that help computer-users navigate the Internet.

However, with an estimated 1.6 billion publicly accessible Web sites, finding what you're looking for online can be more difficult than locating a favorite book in a library after an earthquake.

"The number of Web sites is increasing faster than search engines can index them," said technology researcher Steve Lawrence of the Princeton, N.J.-based NEC Research Institute.

Search engines seek out new ...

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