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Past Conference Information:
ULA/MPLA Joint Conference
May 6-9, 1998
Salt Lake City, UT
The Service Connections: A Vision for Tomorrow

The Inside Story on Your Search Engine:
What's Under the Hood?

Presented by
Keith H. Stirling and Lanell Rabner
Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University

Selected Bibliography

Maze, Susan, David Moxley, and Donna J. Smith. Authoritative Guide to Web Search Engines. Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, NY, 1997.178 p.

Hahn, Trudi Bellardo. Text Retrieval Online: Historical Perspective on Web Search Engines. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. Vol. 24, No. 1 (April/May 1998) pp.7-10

Lawrence, Steve and C. Lee Giles. Searching the World Wide Web. Science, Vol. 280 (3 April 1998) pp. 98-100.


Selected Search Engine Web Sites

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Searching the Internet.
This site links to several maintained sites that are excellent sources for reviewing Web search engines.
URN: Searching the Internet: About.
URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

Besides the Berkeley site at
URN: Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

there are:
URN: Internet Tutorials-University at Albany Libraries
URL: http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/

URN: Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More about Search Engines
URL: http://searchenginewatch.com/

URN: Search Insider
URL: http://www.searchinsider.com/

URN: Subject Directories and Search Engines - Chart
URL: http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/src/chart.html

In addition, another excellent site maintained by Traugott Koch is:
URN: Literature about search services
URL: http://www.ub2.lu.se//desire/radar/lit-about-search-services.html

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