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...canny gambit in what is becoming an increasingly lucrative game. The Web has long since proved that there's money to be made simply by telling people where to go. The veteran search engines--brand names like Yahoo and Excite, Lycos and Infoseek, HotBot and Alta Vista--still dominate the Web's Top 10 traffic lists despite less than stellar performance. The journal Science reports, for example, that the best search engines sample no more than a third of the hundreds of millions of sites in existence. Yet last March, according to the Web research firm RelevantKnowledge, a startling...
...keep up with the dizzying pace of Internet growth? Neither can your search engine. A new study from the NEC research institute says Excite, HotBot, Infoseek et al are barely able to cover one-third of the 320 million web pages estimated to be out there. ?The engines index only a fraction of the total number of documents on the Web,? wrote researchers Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles in the journal Science. ?The coverage of any one engine is significantly limited...
...major players are Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Altavista, Webcrawler and Yahoo...
...Infoseek (www.infoseek.com) has recently undergone a major upgrade of its search engine and may have them all beat...