Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 136.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:54:43 -0400
From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
Subject: For Humanist: LexiBot metasearch software
Of possible interest to Humanist folks: this is obviously a disguised Press
Release (on CNN.com, from a company called BrightPlanet), but it makes a good
point about the opacity of databases to current search technologies and the
software sounds interesting.
Patrick Rourke
ptrourke@mediaone.net
Study says Web is 500 times larger than major search engines now
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[Excerpts, 20% of article]
While search engines obviously have come a long way since 1994, they
aren't indexing even more pages because an increasing amount of
information is stored in evolving, giant databases set up by government
agencies, universities and corporations.
BrightPlanet believes it has developed a solution with software called
"LexiBot." With a single search request, the technology not only searches
the pages indexed by traditional search engines, but delves into the
databases on the Internet and fishes out the information in them.
The LexiBot isn't for everyone, BrightPlanet executives concede. For one
thing, the software costs money -- $89.95 after a free 30-day trial. For
another, a LexiBot search isn't fast. Typical searches will take 10 to 25
minutes to complete, but could require up to 90 minutes for the most
complex requests. The privately held company expects LexiBot to be
particularly popular in academic and scientific circles.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/26/deepweb.ap/index.html
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