Test: Internet Indexing Systems vs List of Known URLs: 2001

This is a compilation of the tests done in 2001 by the author on the then existing search engines. The search engine scene had changed and some of the engines from 1997 were not to be found with some new entries. It was published on the web on the authors home page. As the web pages changed, this was pushed of into the old site and forgotten.

The original HTML pages were converted into PDF using LibreOffice in Aug 2022 and is placed in the Spectrum repository for the record! Who knows some one will find this of interest in the years to come

After 2001, the searching was monopolized, the results were not complete and one passed on to something else. As we know the situation today is such that one search engine is making a fortune and attempts to provide an alternative such as Cliqz could not survive!

本数据集集结了作者于2001年对当时存在的搜索引擎进行的测试。搜索引擎领域已发生变革，其中一些1997年的搜索引擎已无法找到，同时也涌现了一些新的条目。该数据集最初发布在作者的个人主页上。随着网页的更新迭代，该数据集被移至旧网站并被遗忘。原始的HTML页面已于2022年8月通过LibreOffice转换为PDF格式，并存放于Spectrum存储库以备查考！或许在未来，有人会发现这一成果具有研究价值。自2001年以来，搜索市场逐渐形成垄断，搜索结果并不完整，用户往往需要转向其他平台。正如我们所知，当今的搜索市场，一家搜索引擎独大，赚取巨额利润，而试图提供替代方案的如Cliqz等尝试却无法在市场上立足！