This article reviews studies, conducted between 1995 and 2000, on Web search behavior.
These studies reported on children as well as on adults. Most of the studies on children …

This paper reports a comparison of the retrieval effectiveness of the Alta Vista, Excite and
Lycos Web search engines. A method is described for comparing the recall of the three sets …

This study reports on the first part of a research project that investigated children's cognitive,
affective, and physical behaviors as they use the Yahooligans! search engine to find …

Search engines are essential for finding information on the World Wide Web. We conducted
a study to see how effective eight search engines are. Expert searchers sought information …

Three Web search engines, namely, Alta Vista, Excite, and Lycos, were compared and
evaluated in terms of their search capabilities (eg, Boolean logic, truncation, field search …

Where, how, and why are scholars invoked on the World Wide Web? An inductively derived
typology was used to capture genres of invocation. Comparative data were gathered using …

Abstract Five search engines, Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, and Lycos, are compared
for precision on the first 20 results returned for 15 queries, adding weight for ranking …

The success of the web depends not only on the creation of stimulating and valuable
information, but also on the speed, efficiency and convenient delivery of this information to …

This paper presents the results of a research conducted about five search engines-AltaVista,
Google, HotBot, Scirus and Bioweb-for retrieving scholarly information using Biotechnology …

This paper presents a technique for simulating processors and attached hardware using the
principle of compiled simulation. Unlike existing, inhouse and o-the-shelf hardware/software …