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Wanted: Several East Coast Librarians to present responses to Internet
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Fri Feb 28 20:52:51 1997
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:49:11 -0600 (CST)
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From: Darren C Du Vall <darren@prairienet.org>
Subject: Wanted: Several East Coast Librarians to present responses to
Internet Search-Engine Vendors' presentations at the National Online
Meeting 1997
From: Martha E. Williams,
Program Chair, National Online Meeting 1997
University of Illinois
Coordinated Science Laboratory
1308 West Main
Urbana, IL 61801
To: East Coast Librarian Search Engine Users of Hot Bot,
AltaVista, Excite and Lycos
Wanted: Several East Coast Librarians to present responses
to Internet Search-Engine Vendors' presentations at the
National Online Meeting 1997
The National Online Meeting (NOM) will be held in New York City on May
13-15, 1997. I am program chair for the meeting and have set up 4 sessions
on Search Engines. Representatives of Hot Bot, AltaVista, Excite and Lycos
will talk about the design and implementation considerations associated with
their search engines. How is matching of query to file accomplished? How
are sites selected and indexed? How many sites are included? How
frequently are they updated? What general trends are anticipated and how
will the anticipations be met? What improvements and new function /
features are planned? I would like to identify several people in the New
York area who would be willing to give Users responses. One respondent would
speak about one search engine. Users of Hot Bot, AltaVista, Excite and
Lycos will discuss the experiences in searching. They will talk about ease
of use, useful features, pros, cons, strengths and weaknesses. What types
of searches are more suited to the Web vs. traditional online systems.
Search Engine representatives will present on Tuesday, May 13th at the times
given below :
(1) HotBot, presented by Erik Brewer, Chief Technology Officer, Inktomi
(11:15 -12:15);
(2) Lycos, presented by Mark Simmer, Vice President of Online Publishing,
Lycos Inc. (2:00-2:45);
(3) AltaVista, presented by Bob Lehmenkuler, AltaVista Search Product
Marketing Manager, AltaVista (3:00-3:45); and
(4) Excite, presented by Graham Spencer, Chief Technology Officer and
Founder, Excite (4:00-5:00).
Responses to HotBot and Lycos are scheduled for Wednesday, May 14th 10:00
a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and AltaVista and Excite from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
If you would like to give a presentation from the user's point of view to
one of the search engines, please let me know which one(s) you would be
willing to handle. Please email me at m-will13@uiuc.edu with a copy to my
research assistant, Darren Du Vall at d-duvall@uiuc.edu . I will be out of
town next week, so if you have questions, please contact Darren via email or
phone: 217 / 333-8462 [W] and 398-0091 [H].
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Darren C. Du Vall
University of Illinois, ____, ____ ____ __ _,
Coordinated Science Lab. (-| \ (-/ ` (-| \ (- \ |
Computer and Systems Research Lab. _|__/arren \___,. _|__/u \|all
1308 W. Main, Urbana, IL 61801 ( (
217-333--8462(W) 217-398-0091(H)
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