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     Leonie Crompton, Training Development Officer, Parliament House
     CANBERRA  ACT  2600 Austrailia

     Recently wrote:

     >I am posting to the list seeking help from those of you who
     >have experience using http://www.metacrawler.com/ .  In our
     >Introduction to the Internet training sessions we have been using
     >AltaVista, Yahoo, Dogpile and Anzwers (an Australian-based search
     >engine) to introduce our students to efficient retrieval using search
     >engines.  From some exploratory searching using metacrawler it
     >appears that it combines search engines for a more efficient
     >retrieval, but I am unable to find any help on this.

     >Can someone please point me to a site.  Thank you for your time.

     I have found the following site to be most helpful in objectively
     evaluating exactly which search devices (engines and/or indexes) are
     doing what:

     http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

     "Searcher" -- a library science journal -- often prints articles that
     evaluate Web search tools.

     The August 1998 issue of Database magazine has a piece on search
     engines (past and present):
     http://www.onlineinc.com/database/DB1998/wiley8.html

     Finally, here's an Austrailian site which offers many items re:
     quality on the Web...including search tools:
     http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html

     Hope some of this helps you.

     Debbie Wolfe    dpwolfe@sptimes.com
     Technology Training Editor
     St. Petersburg (Florida) Times
     490 First Ave. So.
     St. Petersburg, FL 33701