Re: Meta-seach engines

Erik Selberg (selberg@cs.washington.edu)
04 May 1996 14:04:29 -0700

> Do the big search engines (altavista, lycos, excite etc.) post information
> about their query interface or is it all trial-and-error for each and every
> search engine?

All I do is go to their page (usually the "advanced query" page), view
the source, and parse the form.

The more clever idea is to have a computer do it for me... but that'll
probably appear in next year's AAAI.

-Erik

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