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How To Succeed in Promoting Your Web Site: The Impact of Search Engine Registration on Retrieval of a World Wide Web Site.

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Tunender, Heather; Ervin, Jane – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998

Character strings were planted in a World Wide Web site (Project Whistlestop) to test indexing and retrieval rates of five Web search tools (Lycos, infoseek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Excite). It was found that search tools indexed few of the planted character strings, none indexed the META descriptor tag, and only Excite indexed into the 3rd-4th site…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation

Bibliographic Displays in OPACs and Web Catalogs: How Well Do They Comply with Display Guidelines?

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Cherry, Joan M. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998

Evaluation of data from assessments of full bibliographic displays in academic library OPACs (online public access catalogs) and World Wide Web catalogs against a checklist of desirable features found that OPAC displays scored 58% and Web displays scored 60%. Discusses weaknesses, focusing on those found in the majority of the displays…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis