AltaVista, EuroSeek, Excite, Google, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Microsoft, Northern Light, Snap, and Yahoo. Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. In relation to coverage of the Web overall, Northern Light and Snap again came out ahead at 16 percent and 15 percent, while the last-place laggers were Excite at 6 percent, Lycos at 3 percent, and Euroseek at 2 percent. The study highlighted the fact that search engines are increasingly falling behind in their efforts to provide thorough coverage of the Web. NEC speculated that the reason behind this poor coverage may be a lack of monetary incentive.
Large indexes cost more to create and can result in longer response time to queries.
The study also indicated that search engines do not offer equal access to material on the Web. So sites with many links to them will likely pop up again and again in a search. Thus, popular pages become ever more popular while new, unlinked pages languish in the ether. Send it . Use this version.