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How To Succeed in Promoting Your Web Site: The Impact of Search Engine Registration on Retrieval of a World Wide Web Site.
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Tunender, Heather; Ervin, Jane – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
Character strings were planted in a World Wide Web site (Project Whistlestop) to test indexing and retrieval rates of five Web search tools (Lycos, infoseek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite). It was found that search tools indexed few of the planted character strings, none indexed the META descriptor tag, and only Excite indexed into the 3rd-4th site…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation