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The evolution of web searching Online Information Review - Apr 00 My tag cloud - search engines This paper won the award for 'Most Outstanding Paper' published in the 2000 volume of the Online Information Review journal, as selected by the editor and the editorial advisory board. It has been cited by twenty one other research papers (see also related web search). It is almost 9,000 words long and has therefore been broken into sections for publication on this website: Abstract Section one: Defining the web: Static vs Dynamic web pages, the 'visible' and 'invisible' web Section two: Search engines and web directories explained Section three: Portalisation - the emergence of search sites Section four: Search technology evolves: Meta Searching Popularity based analysis Natural language searching Links analysis Newsgroup searching Subject specific indexes Section five: Search Utilities and Intelligent Agents Section six: XML - Structured searching and seamless data interchange Section seven: The Future: Micro-payments for searches Searching outsourced? Portals go mobile Search Engine Standardisation Order vs Chaos References Appendix - Company Profiles

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