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Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles
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Search engines: irregular indexing, out-of-date, only index a fraction of the web. Metasearch coverage. 320M

Abstract: The coverage and recency of the major World Wide Web search engines was analyzed, yielding some surprising results. The coverage of any one engine is significantly limited: No single engine indexes more than about one-third of the "indexable Web," the coverage of the six engines investigated varies by an order of magnitude, and combining the results of the six engines yields about 3.5 times as many documents on average as compared with the results from only one engine. Analysis of the overlap... (Update)

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S. Lawrence and C.L. Giles. Searching the world wide web. Science, 280(4):98--100 (1998). http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lawrence98searching.html   More

@article{ lawrence98searching,
    author = "Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles",
    title = "Searching the {World Wide Web}",
    journal = "Science",
    volume = "280",
    number = "5360",
    pages = "98--100",
    year = "1998",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lawrence98searching.html" }
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