Number 201 - February 2000

How Computer Experts Search The Web
from St Petersburg Times, reprinted in South County Journal, Oct 31,1999 submitted by Harold Broomell
The experts follow their own advice when it comes to search engine favorites: they don't rely on just one.     "I go all over," said Danny Sullivan, editor of the Search Engine Watch newsletter. "My choices are not necessarily the choices for everyone else. ... They work for me and I like them but I know what they're doing."     He uses traditional favorites such as Alta Vista to get into the nooks and crannies of cyberspace, as well as Yahoo "because you have humans organizing the web." Sullivan also likes a newer site.	"I've used Google a lot more," he said. "For once the hype has been very good."     Randolph Hock, author of "Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher," echoed Sullivan's comments on Alta Vista and Google. He also mentioned Northern Light, which he said "provides excellent results."     Steve Lawrence, a researcher at NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ., simply said, "It depends on what I'm looking for."
Number 201 - February 2000