Document (#21835)

Title

Search tools

Source

Information world review. 1997, no.128, S.15

Year

1997

Abstract

Offers brief accounts of Internet search tools. Covers the Lycos revamp; the new navigation service produced jointly by Excite and Netscape, delivering a language specific, locally relevant Web guide for Japan, Germany, France, the UK and Australia; InfoWatcher, a combination offline browser, search engine and push product from Carvelle Inc., USA; Alexa by Alexa Internet and WBI from IBM which are free and provide users with information on how others have used the Web sites which they are visiting; and Concept Explorer from Knowledge Discovery Systems, Inc., California which performs data mining from the Web, Usenet groups, MEDLINE and the US Patent and Trademark Office patent abstracts

Theme

Suchmaschinen
Data Mining
Web-Agenten

Object

Alexa
WBI

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