Document (#19561)

Author

Notess, G.R.

Title

New features of the Web indexes

Source

Online. 21(1997) no.5, S.52-55

Year

1997

Abstract

Reviews recent changes in 3 Internet search engines. Lycos has implemented full Boolean searching and supports proximity search. AltaVista has introduced LiveTopics, a vocabulary tool for refining search results. Excite Channels is reorganizing from its supplemental database into a 1 page starting point

Theme

Suchmaschinen

Object

Lycos
AltaVista
Excite

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