Table 013 Frequency of occurrence of WWW pages with a keyword 'Asia' in 4 major WWW databases, Sep 97 - Mar 98 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documents Asia: non-Asia Database Date Documents on 'Asia' docs. ratio ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excite Jun 97 28 mln** ? 1: ? Sep 97 50 mln 325,005 1:154 Nov 97 30 mln** ? 1: ? Dec 97 50 mln 403,708 1:124 Mar 98 33 mln** ? 1: ? Mar 98 50 mln (a) 347,090 1:144 www.excite.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Altavista Jun 97 35 mln** ? 1: ? Sep 97 31 mln 1,341,820 1: 23 Nov 97 100 mln** ? 1: ? Dec 97 ?? mln 764,646 1: ? Mar 98 110 mln** 3,252,840 1: 34 altavista.digital.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lycos Sep 97 813,548 94,746 1: 8 Dec 97 ?? 764,455 1: ? Mar 98 ?? ?? 1: ? www.lycos.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Infoseek Jun 97 16 mln** ? 1: ? Sep 97 1,027,148 307,494 1: 3 Nov 97 25 mln** ? 1: ? Dec 97 ?? 479,534 1: ? Mar 98 35 mln** ? 1: ? Mar 98 5,822,443 753,513 1: 8 www.infoseek.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) 140,000 servers ** data from Bharat & Broder, 1998. Dec 97 measurements were taken on 12 Dec 97 Mar 98 measurements were taken on 25 Mar 97 Src: Ciolek 1997a