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Est.: 1 Oct 1997. Last updated: 9 May 1998


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Web Databases Statistics - Table 013

Table 013
Frequency of occurrence of WWW pages with a keyword 'Asia'
in 4 major WWW databases, Sep 97 - Mar 98
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				      Documents       Asia: non-Asia
Database	Date	Documents     on 'Asia'         docs. ratio
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Excite		
                Jun 97    28 mln**           ?            1:  ?               
                Sep 97 	  50 mln       325,005            1:154
                Nov 97    30 mln**           ?            1:  ?    
                Dec 97    50 mln       403,708 		  1:124
		Mar 98    33 mln**           ?            1:  ?
		Mar 98    50 mln (a)    347,090		  1:144

www.excite.com
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Altavista	
                Jun 97    35 mln**           ?            1:  ?               
                Sep 97    31 mln     1,341,820            1: 23
                Nov 97   100 mln**           ?            1:  ?    
                Dec 97   ??  mln       764,646            1:  ?
 		Mar 98   110 mln**     3,252,840          1: 34
altavista.digital.com
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Lycos 		
                Sep 97   813,548        94,746	          1:  8
                Dec 97        ??       764,455 		  1:  ?
 		Mar 98        ??            ??            1:  ?
www.lycos.com
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Infoseek    
                Jun 97    16 mln**           ?            1:  ?               
                Sep 97  1,027,148      307,494	          1:  3
                Nov 97   25 mln**           ?             1:  ?    
                Dec 97         ??      479,534  	  1:  ?
		Mar 98    35 mln**           ?            1:  ?
		Mar 98  5,822,443      753,513 		  1:  8
www.infoseek.com
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(a) 140,000 servers
** data from Bharat & Broder, 1998.
Dec 97 measurements were taken on 12 Dec 97
Mar 98 measurements were taken on 25 Mar 97
Src: Ciolek 1997a 

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