Manually indexed Internet health catalogs such as CliniWeb or CISMeF provide resources for retrieving high-quality health information. Users of these quality-controlled subject gateways are most often referred to them by general search engines such as Google, AltaVista, etc. This raises several questions, among which the following: what is the relative visibility of medical Internet catalogs th...

—COTS-based development is a component reuse approach promising to reduce costs and risks, and ensure higher quality. The growing availability of COTS components on the Web has concretized the possibility of achieving these objectives. In this multitude, a recurrent problem is the identification of the COTS components that best satisfy the user requirements. Finding an adequate COTS component i...

In a recent study [1], Internet users ranked search as their most important activity, awarding it a 9.1 on a 10-point scale. The next most important activity ranked only 6.3. Internet search engines are continually updating their indexes, and scaling up their parallel processors to keep up with the growth of the WWW. It is estimated that there are 800 million indexable pages in the WWW [2], and...

The amount of information available on the WWW is vast and growing at a staggering rate. The result of this growth was that users were unable to explore the vast recourses of the Internet. The answer to that problem was the search engines. Internet search engines first appeared in the mid-90s, but have, in a few years, made themselves part of our everyday lives. Following the global trend greek...