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Table I from Evaluating WWW Search Engines for Chemistry, by Harry E. Pence, Mariah Bernard, Aubray Cerniglia, Linda Mokay, and Lut Wong.
During March of 2001, students in the chemistry senior seminar at SUNY Oneonta surveyed the major web search engines. The main change from the previous survey was the replacing Infoseek with Google, and the reasons for that are described in the accompanying text. The results are shown ibelow. The 1996 and 1997 results are from Lebedev's study, the 1999 results are from the previous SUNY Oneonta study, and the 2001 results are the current project.
Search Term - crystallography
| Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | NorthernLight | MS Network | |
| '96 | 31186 | 24975 | ||||
| '97 | 28597 | 25232 | 15360 | |||
| '99 | 120365 | 28530 | 12260 | 42108 | 18794 | |
| '01 | 156545 | 86300 | 12740 | 125000 | 89240 | 114309 |
Search Term - catalysis
| Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | NorthernLight | MS Network | |
| '96 | 27431 | 18061 | ||||
| '97 | 21841 | 18521 | 12308 | |||
| '99 | 73020 | 23340 | 7902 | 37397 | 13988 | |
| '01 | 76419 | 51300 | 6285 | 102000 | 65186 | 52512 |
Search Term - benzene
| Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | NorthernLight | MS Network | |
| '96 | 27533 | 17304 | ||||
| '97 | 24764 | 19879 | 12372 | |||
| '99 | 51488 | 27745 | 9351 | 51217 | 15315 | |
| '01 | 89501 | 50500 | 3825 | 194000 | 99773 | 59308 |
Search Term - luminescence
| Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | NorthernLight | MS Network | |
| '96 | 9731 | 7231 | ||||
| '97 | 7597 | 8103 | 5733 | |||
| '99 | 11228 | 10490 | 4144 | 21604 | 6539 | |
| '01 | 41679 | 25800 | 2310 | 58400 | 37965 | 45546 |
Search Term - ferroelectric
| Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | NorthernLight | MS Network | |
| '96 | 8354 | 4362 | ||||
| '97 | 5622 | 4579 | 2983 | |||
| '99 | 7091 | 4810 | 1846 | 14402 | 3652 | |
| '01 | 17516 | 9900 | 1095 | 31100 | 23164 | 9774 |
Search Term - EXAFS
| Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | NorthernLight | MS Network | |
| '96 | 3144 | 2167 | ||||
| '97 | 2677 | 2225 | 1639 | |||
| '99 | 3501 | 2450 | 963 | 4595 | 1713 | |
| '01 | 7827 | 4200 | 720 | 13700 | 8003 | 4296 |