Accessibility of information on the web

Search engines do not index sites equally, may not index new pages for months, and no engine indexes more than about 16% of the web. As the web becomes a major communications medium, the data on it must be made more accessible.

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Published in:Nature (London) 1999-07, Vol.400 (6740), p.107-107
Main Authors: Lawrence, Steve, Giles, C. Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abstracting and Indexing as Topic
Accessibility
commentary
Engines
Humanities and Social Sciences
Information management
Information retrieval
Information Storage and Retrieval
Internet
Internet Protocol
Metadata
multidisciplinary
Science
Search engines
Servers
Websites
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Summary:Search engines do not index sites equally, may not index new pages for months, and no engine indexes more than about 16% of the web. As the web becomes a major communications medium, the data on it must be made more accessible.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/21987