Re: Metacrawler

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From: susan larsson
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 00:00

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At 09:51 AM 10/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>     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 find this site to be an excellent comparison of the features of the
metasearch engines:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html

it is part of an excellent search tutorial in general, well worth a look.

fwiw,
susan
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