Early Search Engines (1980s and early '90s)

• Online Services

  • Mainly articles and published reports

• High Charge Per Minute

• Must Choose Among Data Sources

• Complex Query Languages

  • ? s au=reagan??r?

  • ? s (teachers and (college or school))/ti,ab

  • S (AIDS OR ARC) (S)DISCRIM?

• Experts only

  • librarians, searchers, information brokers

• Ugly, too

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BayCHI, March 2002

Avi Rappoport, Search Tools Consulting
www.searchtools.com