Of possible interest is an article:
Searching the world wide web: an evaluation of available tools and
methodologies
JENKINS, C & others
Information and software technology 39 (14-15) 1998, 985-994
The authors, from the School of Computing and IT at Wolverhampton University,
discuss the working of Web search engines; list many of them (similar details
are at http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~ex1253/search_engines/); outline basic
principles of information retrieval well familiar to librarians; and look at
some developments like ROADS. Despite the title, evaluation is rather lacking
from the paper and they do seem to think eLib is the Electronic Libraries
association (their capitalisation)!
(And, by the way, the Elsevier Web site is unimpressively a few issues behind
with the contents and abstracts for this journal)
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