Web Spiders Results

This is the table of results from using the spiders for a sample keyword search.

Spider	Search Command	Output	Comments	Grade
Alta Vista	Advanced Query + "John December" NEAR "book" AND (NOT host:rpi.edu) AND (NOT host:loria.fr) AND (NOT host:unc.edu) AND (NOT host:december.com)	over 100 documents; false hits included the word "book" near my name.	Pretty easy to judge value;	A-
Open Text	power search + "John December" Near book But not (rpi.edu within Web Location (URL)) But not (loria.fr within Web Location (URL)) But not (december.com within Web Location (URL))	28 documents;	seems to close to what I want	A-
Excite	concept + "books John December wrote"; then sort by server	approx 40 documents; many false hits	Hard to judge relevancy from sort by server	C+
	keyword + "John December Book"; then sort by server	approx 50 documents (some different from concept search); many false hits (December)
NlightN	(John December) & book	nothing	no match	D
	John December	1 database index (publisher in LOC), 76 web sites, 1 bookstore title	matches from paper publications database; including 2 of my old poems! ineffective for search
infoseek guide	All web pages: "John December" book	about 100 documents	many on my server; many false hits;	F
	Reviewed web pages: "John December" book	same documents!	option not working properly