05.09.00
Search Engines
Building a search engine or adding one to a web site? here’s a great note on how general surfers use the search engine at Magellan: <http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A2=ind0005b&L=chi-web&O=A&P=924>
Most of the time, I’ve been using <http://www.google.com> over just about every other search engine. The only time I use <http://www.AltaVista.com> nowadays is when I’ve got a particular string of words and I’m trying to track down the source. Of course I don’t use AltaVista’s main page. I use their text only interface at: <http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text> but I may switch that to <http://www.raging.com/> if I find that it uses the same style of searching as AV does.