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Table I from Evaluating WWW Search Engines for Chemistry, by Harry E. Pence, Richard Bachelder, Michael Branciforti, Susan Donadio, Brian John, Joo M Jung, Matthew Glidden, Melanie Krom, Kelly Modoo, and Todd Morris, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY.
During May of this year, students in the senior seminar at SUNY Oneonta repeated the survey that had previously been done by Lebedev, with several changes. The results are shown in Table I below. The 1996 and 1997 results are from Lebedev's study and the 1999 results are the current project.
Search Term - crystallography
Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | Infoseek | NorthernLight | MSNetwork |
'96 | 31186 | 24975 | 1464 | |||
'97 | 28597 | 25232 | 15360 | 11513 | ||
'99 | 120365 | 28530 | 12260 | 21123 | 42108 | 18794 |
Search Term - catalysis
Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | Infoseek | NorthernLight | MSNetwork |
'96 | 27431 | 18061 | 550 | |||
'97 | 21841 | 18521 | 12308 | 9471 | ||
'99 | 73020 | 23340 | 7902 | 17163 | 37397 | 13988 |
Search Term - benzene
Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | Infoseek | NorthernLight | MSNetwork |
'96 | 27533 | 17304 | 374 | |||
'97 | 24764 | 19879 | 12372 | 8875 | ||
'99 | 51488 | 27745 | 9351 | 17538 | 51217 | 15315 |
Search Term - luminescence
Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | Infoseek | NorthernLight | MSNetwork |
'96 | 9731 | 7231 | 206 | |||
'97 | 7597 | 8103 | 5733 | 4104 | ||
'99 | 11228 | 10490 | 4144 | 8397 | 21604 | 6539 |
Search Term - ferroelectric
Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | Infoseek | NorthernLight | MSNetwork |
'96 | 8354 | 4362 | 166 | |||
'97 | 5622 | 4579 | 2983 | 2439 | ||
'99 | 7091 | 4810 | 1846 | 3820 | 14402 | 3652 |
Search Term - EXAFS
Year | Altavista | Hotbot | Excite | Infoseek | NorthernLight | MSNetwork |
'96 | 3144 | 2167 | 64 | |||
'97 | 2677 | 2225 | 1639 | 1005 | ||
'99 | 3501 | 2450 | 963 | 1446 | 4595 | 1713 |