Evaluating Search Engines - II

Table I

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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.


TABLE I

SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS

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


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