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• - Contains reviews, interviews, and articles about the search engine industry with a focus on relevancy by Chris Fillius.
  
• - Detailed analysis of the five major Search Engines, Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos.
  
• - Comparison of selected search engines and directories by content and features.
  
• - University librarian Laura Cohen gives advice in the format of "if you want A then choose B."
  
• - An analysis of the search results for four sample searches.
  
• - Ben Edelman evaluates DNS, Google, and RealNames for their respective accuracies in providing correct and relevant content. Research suggests that Google offers the highest accuracy.
  
• - Comparison of AltaVista, Excite, and Lycos.
  
• - As Microsoft enters the internet search engine market, the BBC compare five of the main providers: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and A9.
  
• - Recommendations from the Library and Information Technology Association about which Web resources are most effective in producing authoritative results for information-seekers.
  
• - Provides unbranded search results from the top five search engines. You can then vote on the one you find the most relevant. All users' votes are aggregated and provided in a pie chart showing voting ditribution after you vote.
  
• - Publishes articles and news about pay per click search engines.