Infoseek's experiences searching the Internet Steve Kirsch Chairman Infoseek Corporation 1399 Moffett Park Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1134 E-Mail: stk@infoseek.com Abstract This article recounts both amusing and useful data Infoseek has gathered over the past four years as a leading search site on the Internet. Topics include what people ask on the web, factors for relevance ranking web pages, techniques for searching an infinite number of web pages, and the reasons why Infoseek began writing a search engine in Java a year ago. Infoseek beginnings Infoseek began in 1994 with a mission of offering high quality information at a low price to a mass audience using an easy-to-use natural language search engine (originally INQUERY from UMass) via the Internet. We conjectured that if we built such a service, we could address a huge untapped market, namely, those people who had a need for information, but found information retrieval services like DIALOG too expensive and too hard to use. We underestimated how quickly other sites would provide such information at no cost on the Internet, and we soon found that few users were willing to pay for our information due to its perceived "instant" availability at other sites. The value
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Infoseek's experiences searching the internet
Kirsch, Steven
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, Volume 32 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1998
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