CONTACTS 
0201 - Chips & Tech.                      408 434 0600
020101 - Mr. Morris E. Jones
020102 - Sr. Vice President =4283 Ext

SUBJECTS
Web Site Planning, Design
Subject Indexing is Complex, Others Have Failed
Phased Introduction of Capability, Subject Search
Telecon Morris on Subject Search Support
Subject Indexing
Internet, Search Engines Poor

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1209 - Summary/Objective
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121001 - Follow up ref SDS 23 2453, ref SDS 22 1672.
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121003 - Reuters published article on Yahoo Internet service reporting study
121004 - showing that Internet search engines are not very efficient. ref OF 1
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121007 - The Web is estimated to contain 320 million pages of information. per
121008 - ref OF 1 2856
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121010 - Morris indicated in our call on 980307 that users will want a search
121011 - engine for the Welch Web site. ref SDS 23 0678
121012 -
121013 - He indicated that existing popular search engines might be adequate,
121014 - and commented about the role of "fuzzy subject" methods.
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121016 - The study found that search engines index only a fraction of available
121017 - documents. ref OF 1 3506
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121019 - Search engines that index the "full text" of documents include:
121020 -
121021 -        Search Engine             Portion Searched
121022 -
121023 -        AltaVista                     28%
121024 -        Excite                        14%
121025 -        HotBot                        34%
121026 -        Infoseek                      10%
121027 -        Lycos                          3%
121028 -        Northern Light                20%
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121030 -     ...and make the Web a searchable 15-billion-word encyclopedia,"
121031 -     they wrote. ref OF 1 2549
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121033 -     However, none of these systems cover even half of the available
121034 -     information.
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121036 - This record seems to indicate commercial search engines may not be a
121037 - reliable way to enable customers to find information in the record.
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