Beatrice Robertson <brobrtsn@ns1.directnet.net>
wrote in "Mechanical Music Digest 96.09.11":

> In running many searches using various engines, mechanical music
> turns up the most pertinent sites; music box, get a few, but many
> more not pertinent; and automatic music, none.

I did the following web search on 15/9/96 (all machines with default
settings) - and got the following results:
•---------------  ----------  ----------   ---------     -------
hits             search for  search for
                  automatic  mechanical
search engine         music       music       music     comment
---------------  ----------  ----------   ---------     -------
Alta Vista:         531,485     479,095   3.993,884
Infoseek            113,858      99,036
Webcrawler          107,824     104,332
Lycos                45,985      47,570      32,202     musical, musicians, ...
Galaxy                3,143       2,966
Aliweb                   71          76
Yahoo                     7          10
---------------   ---------- ----------   ---------     searching news
Open Text             2,469       3,200                 boolean AND
Deja News               977         877
Harvest Broker           18          15                 boolean AND
---------------   ---------- ----------   ---------
Excite                 crashes Netscape-browser!
WWWW                   not reachable
Inktomi                not reachable
Nikos                  not reachable
Magellan               not reachable

                      Suchbegriff    Suchbegriff
nur deutsche Seiten   automatische   mechanische        Kommentar
...................    Musik           Musik            .........
Flipper                                                 nicht erreichbar
crawler.de                0              7              215877 Seiten
Kolibri                   4              8
Dino                      0              1
web.de                    1              0

•Of course there are many, many obsolete pointers but on nearly all search
engines you can refine your search and get better results.

And here are the URLs (Unified Resource Locator):

•   "http://altavista.digital.com/"     >Alta Vista (Digital)<
   "http://www.leo.org/www_index/form-search.html" >Aliweb<
   "http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnq.html" >DejaNews<
   "http://galaxy.einet.net/www/www.html" >Galaxy<
   "http://town.hall.org/brokers/www-home-pages/query.html" >Harvest Broker<
   "http://guide-p.infoseek.com"       >Infoseek 1<
   "http://www2.infoseek.com/"         >InfoSeek 2<
   "http://inktomi.cs.berkeley.edu:1234"  >Inktomi<
   "http://www.lycos.com/"             >Lycos<
   "http://searcher.mckinley.com"      >Magellan<
   "http://www.rns.com/cgi-bin/nikos"  >Nikos<
   "http://search.opentext.com"        >Open Text Index<
   "http://www.webcrawler.com"         >WebCrawler<
   "http://wwww.cs.colorado.edu/wwww"  >World Wide Web Worm<
   "http://search.yahoo.com/"          >Yahoo<
   "http://www.excite.com"             >Excite - 'Unknown' fault with NETSCAPE!<
   "http://www.metacrawler.com"        >command various search engines<

•search engines, crawler, robots and worms for german-pages only:

•   "http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/flipper/"  >Flipper nur dt.Web-Seiten<
   "http://www.crawler.de"                >Crawler dt. Suchmaschine<
   "http://www.kolibri.de"          >Kolibri dt. Suchmaschine mit Thesaurus<
   "http://www.iosys.de"            >Iosys=Kolibri dt. Suchmaschine mit Thesaurus<
   "http://www.dino-online.de/suche.html" >Dino dt. Suchmaschine<
   "http://www.web.de"                    >Web dt.Katalog<

•Claus Kucher