Searching the Greek WWW

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 WWW has grown considerably in the last eight years. This paper presents an overview of the existing search engines that index the greek web pages, and attempts an initial comparison. Our study includes global and greek search engines. The comparison involves search engines’ characteristics, relative size, overlapping, unique results and dead link analysis.