Re: <nettime> search engines

[Steve Cisler <cisler {AT} pobox.com>]

As a librarian I have found these sites helpful:
http://www.infosearcher.com/
and
http://searchenginewatch.com/

You will also find a number of interesting hits in Google if you use 
these terms
search engine blog

Steve Cisler

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Taz-Ays-Slath wrote:

> Does anyone know of any articles discussing the efficiency of web 
> search engines?
> I have a general idea that search engines can take up to a year to 
> update a down
> web site but I am wondering if anyone has written about how search 
> engines do
> what they do and, espcially, how up do date their hits are.

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