Reviews of Internet search engines tend to concentrate on popularity or on sheer numbers of results (see, for instance, the Search Engine Ratings and Reviews section of Search Engine Watch), on the results' apparent relevance to search queries (see the literature review in Tang and Sun), or on the programming that make the results possible (and in many cases the underlying search machinery is the same for different search interfaces; see the Who Powers Whom? chart in Sullivan). If the reviews discuss interfaces, they concentrate on input features made possible by new programming (see Online magazine's monthly "Search Engines" column). This review will present a few of the search interfaces currently available and briefly analyze the rhetorical limitations of input and output displays.
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