TY  - JOUR
AB  - Discusses the results of a case study in which 20 random queries were presented for ten consecutive days to Hotbot and Snap, two search tools that draw their results from the database of Inktomi. The results show huge daily fluctuations in the number of hits retrieved by Hotbot, and high stability in the hits displayed by Snap. These findings are to alert users of Hotbot of its instability as of October 1999, and they raise questions about the reliability of previous studies estimating the size of Hotbot based on its overlap with other search engines.
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
SN  - 1468-4527
DO  - 10.1108/14684520010362099
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520010362099
AU  - Bar‐Ilan Judit
PY  - 2000
Y1  - 2000/01/01
TI  - Evaluating the stability of the search tools Hotbot and Snap: a case study
T2  - Online Information Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 439
EP  - 450
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -