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Winner of LIBRI Best Student Paper Award 1999 The First Monday Metadata Project

Winner of LIBRI Best Student Paper Award 1999 The First Monday Metadata Project Introduction Arecreational user of the Internet may not realise that there are approximately 100 million public web pages (Richmond 1999). The relevance of this figure may not sink in until the user attempts to find a piece of Information on the Internet. Knowing the address, or URL, of a Web site, is a decided advantage, but often this Information is not readily available. At this point a search engine such s AltaVista, Webcrawler or HotBot must be used. A novice Internet searcher may hold misconceptions about what a search engine does. He may think that every search engine indexes all sites on the World Wide Web, or that typing in several words together will return pages containing all of the requested words. He also expects Information to be returned in a clear and indexed fashion (Pollock and Hockley 1997). Unfortunately, this is not the case. Current search engines index only a fraction of available web sites and use their own set of algorithms to search through those sites (Peterson 1997). To find more accurate Information, a searcher must consider the percentage of the Internet indexed by the search engine of choice, and any special semantics necessary to locate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Libri - International Journal of Libraries and Information Services de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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0024-2667
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10.1515/libr.1999.49.3.125
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Introduction Arecreational user of the Internet may not realise that there are approximately 100 million public web pages (Richmond 1999). The relevance of this figure may not sink in until the user attempts to find a piece of Information on the Internet. Knowing the address, or URL, of a Web site, is a decided advantage, but often this Information is not readily available. At this point a search engine such s AltaVista, Webcrawler or HotBot must be used. A novice Internet searcher may hold misconceptions about what a search engine does. He may think that every search engine indexes all sites on the World Wide Web, or that typing in several words together will return pages containing all of the requested words. He also expects Information to be returned in a clear and indexed fashion (Pollock and Hockley 1997). Unfortunately, this is not the case. Current search engines index only a fraction of available web sites and use their own set of algorithms to search through those sites (Peterson 1997). To find more accurate Information, a searcher must consider the percentage of the Internet indexed by the search engine of choice, and any special semantics necessary to locate

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Libri - International Journal of Libraries and Information Services – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1999

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