Table 3 Number of hits contributed by each search engine
From: Breast cancer: patient information needs reflected in English and German web sites
Search engines | Breast cancer | Brustkrebs | Mammakarzinom |
|---|---|---|---|
Lycos | 3170 | 4000 | 510 |
Fast Search | 2500 | 2270 | 999 |
Hotbot | 1035 | 996 | 278 |
Altavista | 1000 | 1000 | 798 |
Excite | 1000 | 53 | 31 |
Webcrawler | 1000 | 54 | 2 |
CompuServe | 980 | 941 | n/a |
861 | 535 | 567 | |
Looksmart | 785 | 0 | 0 |
AOL | 625 | 0 | 0 |
Open Directory Project | 505 | 0 | 1 |
EuroSeek | 500 | 500 | 500 |
Netscape Netcenter | 500 | 6 | 1 |
Yahoo! | 340 | 0 | 0 |
MSN | 192 | 195 | 193 |
NBCi | 134 | 135 | 135 |
Direct Hit | 12 | 14 | 18 |
Goto.com | 0 | 0 | 138 |
Total | 15 139 | 10 699 | 4171 |
Doublets removed | 8335 | 11 058a | |
Unique hits provided by the search engines | 6804 | 3812a | |
Relevant web pages included in the study | 1888 | 2702 | |
Corresponding web projects | 132 | 65 |
