Table of Contents
 

FRONT PAGE
ABSTRACT
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES AND LIST OF TABLES
 

APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY
APPENDIX B: REFERENCES
 
 
List of Figures
 
2-1
 Search engine architecture 
2-2
 Screenshot of the Yahoo! Web site as visualized by Apple's HotSauce 
4-1
 Agent learning 
4-2
 Screenshot from the Letizia agent used with Netscape 
5-1
 The Extended Dewey Decimal Internet Classification system 
5-2
 Screenshot from Dewey for Windows 
7-1
 The high recall, low precision problem 
7-2
 The high precision, low recall problem 
7-3
 High recall, high precision 
7-4
 Novice query search screenshot 
7-5
 The “Submit Web Page” form
 
 
List of Tables
 
2-1
 Dublin Core descriptive elements 
3-1
 RSACi's rating system
5-1
 The most common words in written English 
6-1
 Field codes for use in the EDDIC index 
 
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