Web Searching for Mechanical / Automatic Music
By Claus Kucher
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 |
(Message sent Sun 15 Sep 1996, 13:55:09 GMT, from time zone GMT+0200.) |
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