%A Xu Jianhua,Wu Xian,Hu Yansong %T An Examination of Six Popular Web Search Engines on Abroad %0 Journal Article %D 2001 %J Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery %R 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2001.01.12 %P 48-51 %V 17 %N 1 %U {https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/CN/abstract/article_1890.shtml} %8 2001-02-25 %X

This article evaluates six popular Web Searching Engines: Altavista, Excite, Go, Hotbot, Lycos, and Yahoo. These databases are compared and analysed in seven aspects: scope and size,collecting methods,indexing and abstracting,search features,displaying,sorting,and updating frequency