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Foil 10 Web-Linked Databases for Domain-Specific Information Repositories

From CEWES Year 2 Summary of NPAC Activitie CEWES End of Year 2 Review Vicksburg -- Feb 24-26 98. by David Bernholdt, Geoffrey C. Fox
Information available on the Internet (incl. world-wide web) can be of great value to DoD researchers
Amount of information is overwhelming & growing
"Global" WWW search engines are
  • Increasingly selective in what they index
  • Already too general to be useful in many cases
Alternative: Domain-specific search engines allow more efficient searching

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