WEB‐BASED SEARCH SERVICES

In the past few months a new breed of online search facility has made its début, accessible through the World Wide Web using any standard browser such as Netscape. Here is an introduction to three such newcomers: NlightN, NewsPage and Infoseek. We used Netscape to run a test search on each of these, choosing both a current topic (the HotJava browser: see our last issue's News Roundup, p. 174) and one slightly more obscure (the 1994 film Shadowlands, about the romance between C.S. Lewis and Joy Gresham). We will show the results of these searches elsewhere in this article but first, here is more about the services themselves.