Accessibility of information on the web

Steve Lawrence () and C. Lee Giles
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C. Lee Giles: NEC Research Institute

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6740, 107-107

Abstract: Abstract Search engines do not index sites equally, may not index new pages for months, and no engine indexes more than about 16% of the web. As the web becomes a major communications medium, the data on it must be made more accessible.

Date: 1999
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