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Articles, reports and other literature on search engines or web crawlers.

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• ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard

  http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=988407
  Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article.

• BBC: Search Wars - Which is the Best?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4003193.stm
  As Microsoft enters the internet search engine market, the BBC compare five of the main providers: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and A9.

• Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads

  http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=1&subcategory_id=24&article_id=33
  A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads.

• DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation

  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/archived_content/people/edelman/DNS-as-search/
  Ben Edelman evaluates DNS, Google, and RealNames for their respective accuracies in providing correct and relevant content. Research suggests that Google offers the highest accuracy.

• Efficient, Automatic Web Resource Harvesting

  http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/papers/f140-nelson.pdf
  Research paper which offers a solution for increased indexing efficiency.

• Indexing the Internet

  http://www.tk421.net/essays/babel.html
  An essay by John Hubbard analyzing the question of what is the best way to index the Internet, with references.

 

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