Articles, reports and other literature on search engines or web crawlers.
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- Indexing the Internet An essay by John Hubbard analyzing the question of what is the best way to index the Internet, with references.
- Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads 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.
- Efficient, Automatic Web Resource Harvesting Research paper which offers a solution for increased indexing efficiency.
- BBC: Search Wars - Which is the Best? As Microsoft enters the internet search engine market, the BBC compare five of the main providers: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and A9.
- DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation 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.
- ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article.