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Search engines used in UK HE

What is used now (a detailed list)

Now compared with usage in 1999:

1999 2003
ht://dig 25 53
Microsoft 10 20
Google 0 18
Inktomi/Ultraseek 7 12
eXcite 19 5
Thunderstone's Webinator 4 4
Atomz 0 2
ColdFusion 0 5
FreeFind (Remote Index) 2 1
Netscape (Compass/Web Publisher) 3 1
AltaVista (Product) 1 1
Harvest-NG and Zebra 8 1
Perfect Search 0 1
Maestro 1 1
WebStar 1 1
WebFind 1 0
Fluid Dynamics Search Engine 0 1
Picosearch 0 1
SWISH / SWISH-E 5 0
wwwwais 3 0
Muscat 1 0
Other (Not known, home-grown) 8 5
AltaVista (Public Service) 1 0
None (or not easily found) 60 21

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