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Nature 401, 111 (9 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/43541
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A science-oriented search engine could solve web problems ...
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
Lawrence and Giles eloquently describe the problems with the World-Wide Web – the small percentage of total pages indexed by search engines and their bias towards 'popular' pages (Nature 400, 107–109; 1999). This suggests that a large proportion of the scientific information on the web, from home pages to preprints and sequences, may never be discovered.
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