An encyclopedia that lets you stroll a Florentine piazza

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Microsoft's Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia better suits the needs of older children, and IBM's World Book encyclopedia may help those below high-school age. Both 1998 two-disk 'deluxe' editions come in versions for Windows 95, offering the most text and multimedia. The fifth edition of Encarta maintains its elegant, intelligent user interface. Encarta now offers 900 sidebars to relevant articles, plus a research organizer that helps students prepare electronic notecards for research papers. World Book's improved user interface still trails Encarta in tasks such as searching and copying articles. Its superior Homework Wizard student-research aid is ideal for kids learning to prepare papers, with a step-by-step method for creating a report, chart or timeline. Encarta's approximately 32,000 articles contain 13 million words, compared to World Book's roughly 18,500 articles with 12 million words. Encarta costs about $80 for the deluxe edition, and the deluxe World Book edition costs about $70.

On-Line Information Services, Information retrieval services, Database Vendors NEC, Evaluation, Database industry, Product/Service Evaluation, Product information, Microsoft Corp., International Business Machines Corp., IBM, MSFT, Software multiproduct review, E-books, Electronic reference books, Microsoft Encarta (Electronic reference), Electronic reference, World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia 1998 (Electronic reference)

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Some search engines can cut the time you waste on the Web

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A number of new search engines have emerged to challenge the leaders that help users navigate the World Wide Web. Goto.com (www.goto.com) informs visitors of the amount that each participating Web site has paid for its positioning in search results. Some of the hits can be unhelpful, however. HotBot's (www.hotbot.com) engine stands out for letting visitors specify particular phrases and names as well as restrict searches to certain dates. DirectHit, a HotBot feature, lists the 10 most popular sites for any search item. Other discussed search engines include Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), a meta search site; FerretSoft's WebFerret (www.ferretsoftt.com), a meta search engine; and Virage's AV Photo Finder image-searching engine. Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) and Compaq's Alta Vista (www.altavista.com) are two preferred established search engines. Human indexers lend extra creativity to Yahoo, while Alta Vista's computers index individual words for more effective narrow searches.

United States, Prepackaged software, Telegraph & other communications, Services information, Services, Online information services, Yahoo! Inc., Internet access software, Internet/Web technology, Inktomi Corp., INKT, Search engines, YHOO, Internet/Web search service, Internet access, HotBot (Internet/Web search service), Virage Inc., DogPile, FerretSoft L.L.C.

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