It's confirmed: Web's size bogs down searches
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Search engines cannot provide full service on a rapidly-expanding Internet, according to Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ. Individual search engines fail to locate more than a third of the Internet's minimum 320 million pages, the report said. Searching with several engines represents the best way to find obscure documents, because different search engines turned up different documents. Testing consisted of using six popular search engines to answer 575 Web questions posed by NEC employees in 1997. Hotbot, Alta Vista, Northern Light, Excite, Infoseek and Lycos comprised the six search engines. The researchers then downloaded each of the 150,000 returning pages, using a computer program and some manual checking to ascertain search terms on the pages.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Cows cloned in first case like Dolly's, Japanese say
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Cloning experts are withholding judgement about a report that Japanese scientists have cloned two calves from adult cows until evidence is made public. Japanese scientists have not yet provided evidence that the cloning process was done from adult cows rather than fetal cells nor have they provided evidence of DNA testing to prove that the cloned calves genes are identical to the adult cows. Researchers at the Ishikawa Prefectural Livestock Research Center, who reproduced the methods used in last year's sheep cloning in Scotland, claim that cloning will allow the breeding of large numbers of cattle for improved meat and milk production.
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Japan: Scientists clone 2 calves from adult cows
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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