"Comparing Net Directories"
Journal article
By: Greg R. Notess
Date: 1997
Source: Notess, Greg R. "Comparing Net Directories." Database 20, February/March 1997, 61–64.
About the Author: Greg R. Notess (1962–) is a reference librarian at Montana State University, a consultant, a writer, and a speaker.
Introduction
The World Wide Web has been called the "greatest organized catastrophe ever seen." With the proliferation of Web sites being added to the Internet daily in the early twenty-first century, it was difficult to keep up with what was current as well as what was accurate. As the technology improved and the Web grew, there was a growing need for software and websites that would "organize" all of the information available.
Early versions of databases that attempted to organize websites did not always yield favorable results. While some used traditional Boolean searching,...
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