Document (#20123)

Author

Notess, G.R.

Title

Searching the World-Wide Web : Lycos, WebCrawler and more

Source

Online. 19(1995) no.4, S.48-53

Year

1995

Abstract

Reviews the keyword indexes available for searching the WWW. Discusses: Lycos, WebCrawler, WWW Worm, Harvest Broker, and CUI. Yahoo is available for keyword searching of subject listings. The CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Engine) is a front end that provides 1 form for searching a number of indexes. A commercial service, InfoSeek, is being developed to search indexes

Theme

Suchmaschinen

Object

Lycos
WebCrawler
WWW Worm
Harvest Broker
CUI
CUSI
InfoSeek
Yahoo

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