Two new metasearch services:
C4 (http://www.c4.com)
"C4 is not a single database like other Internet search sites. Parallel
searching provides you with the ability to search more than one
database at a time, while returning only the most relevant search
results. This powerful technology has been developed to save you
time and only return the Best-of-the-Best in search results.
Search the Web: Provides you with the ability to search using Alta
Vista, Yahoo!, InfoSeek. Excite, Lycos, Snap.com, Magellan,
WebCrawler and HotBot and returns only the most relevant results."
SurfWax (http://www.surfwax.com)
"Surfwax is the only search site to offer four seamless dimensions
for Internet searching. The 1st dimension of SurfWax helps you focus
your search. The 2nd dimension of SurfWax offers "consolidated
meta-searching" to give you a concise list of the top
search results for a large portion of the web. The 3rd
dimension of SurfWax offers unique SiteSnaps(tm) (web page abstracts)
to help you first "check out" a web site -- much faster with more
meaningful information than any one search engine. And the SiteSnaps
give you this information in a consistent format, so you can more
easily gauge content before linking to a page.
SurfWax also offers a 4th dimension -- My Personal Searcher -- the
best way for you to "personalize" your search. Use of My Personal
Searcher does require that you select Personalize? under Preferences.
We will be adding faster and revolutionary new features to My Personal
Searcher in late 1999. And in 2000 we will be introducing content
"representation" -- an advanced conceptual version of SiteSnaps leading the
future of web surfing."
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Ian Winship
Information Services, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
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