Evaluating Search Engines - III

Table I

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Table II from Evaluating WWW Search Engines for Chemistry, by Harry E. Pence, Diane Barber, Seth Knupp, Timothy Naples, Katherine O'Brien, Melissa Ogborn, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820

As noted in the text of this article, NortherLight was not used this year; Wisenut and Scirus were added. To make the comparison more accurate, Scirus was checked both for the web only as well las for the journal data bases that are available for this engine.

Search Term - enediynes

Year	AltaVista	HotBot	Google	Northernlight	MSNetwork	FAST	Scirus (Web Only)	Scirus	Wisenut
'01	156	159	349	572	240	303
'03	322	449	705		330	424	459	1000	185

Search Term - calixarene

Search Term - attosecond

Year	AltaVista	HotBot	Google	Northernlight	MSNetwork	FAST	Scirus (Web Only)	Scirus	Wisenut
'01	198	<300	867	477	477	552
'03	907	1775	1985		1473	1445	706	774	688

Search Term - dendrimer

Year	AltaVista	HotBot	Google	Northernlight	MSNetwork	FAST	Scirus (Web Only)	Scirus	Wisenut
'01	1492	1400	5350	4860	1415	2370
'03	3574	4725	7090		3617	5031	4179	5841	2818

Search Term - oligosaccharide

Search Term - XANES

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