DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation
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Description: Ben Edelman evaluates DNS, Google, and RealNames for their respective accuracies in providing correct and relevant content. Research suggests that Google offers the highest accuracy.
(June 01, 2002)
DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation In the course of the Internet's growing popularity, many Internet users have come to use the domain name system (DNS) as a directory and search engine: When trying to reach the web site of a new or unknown company, users often request the web page at the address http://www.companyname.com, replacing "companyname" with a guess as to a site's likely domain name. However, this DNS-based method is imperfect in that users may fail to correctly guess or remember a given company's domain name, instead typically receiving errors or sites operated by other entities.
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| Page title: | DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation |
| Keywords: | DNS search engine directory domain names accuracy |
| Description: | Research evaluating DNS, Google, and RealNames for their respective accuracies in providing correct and relevant content. Finds that Google offers the highest accuracy and that DNS is inferior to Google in each class of content tested. |
| IP-address: | 128.103.64.74 |
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| NS | Name Servers: EXTERNALDNS-C1.HARVARD.EDU 128.103.200.35 EXTERNALDNS-C2.HARVARD.EDU 128.103.200.51 |
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| Date | activated: 27-Jun-1985 last updated: 04-Sep-2013 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |