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Diversity on the World Wide Web: Using Robots to Search the Web.

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Scales, B. Jane; Felt, Elizabeth Caulfield – Library Software Review, 1995

Reviews "robot" search engines specifically developed for information retrieval on the World Wide Web, examines automated and designated robot searching tools, and offers tips to help users judge the usefulness of Web search engines. Discusses sample searches of automated and designated search engines and presents example computer…

Descriptors: Computer Software Reviews, Information Retrieval, Online Searching, Screen Design (Computers)

ConSearch: An Electronic Document Research and Retrieval Utility for Windows from Management Information Technologies.

Peer reviewed

Combs, Joseph, Jr. – Library Software Review, 1995

Reviews ConSearch 3.0, a product that provides flexible searching of electronic files, allowing the location of related meanings as well as exact matches. ConSearch 3.0 differs from other file retrieval approaches by relating words in search phrases of questions to the "meaning" of the words, which are stored in a "conceptual…

Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Databases