Surfing the Web is now a legitimate topic for scientific research if the latest issue of Science magazine is any guide. On page 98 of the April 3 issue of Science Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, report that no search engine covers more that one third of the 320 million indexable pages on the Web. Lawrence and Giles suggest that the best way to search the Internet is to use a search engine that combines output from a number of engines, such as Metacrawler . On page 95 of the same issue Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, found that users follow common patterns of behaviour when looking at Web sites. Part of the reason for this low number could be the slow access speeds available to most American Online members.
Science magazine is any guide.
Contact us .