Web search engines

Schwartz, Candy

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1998)49:11<973::aid-asi3>3.0.co;2-z

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“…Studies discussing the overlap of search results from different engines were conducted to a large extent. We will not discuss in detail earlier studies (Chignell et al 1999;Gordon and Pathak 1999;Nicholson 2000;Schwartz 1998). These all find little overlap between the Web search engines' results, but these findings are now of limited use because of the constantly changing Web search engine landscape.…”

Section: Uniqueness Of Search Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?

Reilly

2008

Web Search

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SummaryThe purpose of this paper is to describe various quality measures for search engines and to ask whether these are suitable. We especially focus on user needs and their use of Web search engines. The paper presents an extensive literature review and a first quality measurement model, as well. Findings include that Web search engine quality can not be measured by just retrieval effectiveness (the quality of the results), but should also consider index quality, the quality of the search features and Web search engine usability . For each of these sections, empirical results from studies conducted in the past, as well as from our own research are presented. These results have implications for the evaluation of Web search engines and for the development of better search systems that give the user the best possible search experience. IntroductionWeb search engines have become important for information seeking in many different contexts (e.g., personal, business, and scientific). Research questions not answered satisfactorily are, as of now, how well these engines perform regarding user expectations and what measures should be used to get an overall picture of search engine quality . It is well known that search engine quality in its entirety cannot be measured with the use of traditional retrieval measures. But the development of new, search engine specific measures, as proposed in Vaughan (2004) are not sufficient, either. Search engine quality must be defined more extensively and integrate factors beyond retrieval performance such as index quality and the quality of the search features.One aspect neglected is the user himself. But to discuss and judge the quality of search engines, it is important to focus on the user of such systems, too. Better performance of ranking algorithms or providing additional services does not always lead to users' satisfaction and to better search results. We focus on the Web search engine user behaviour to derive strategies to measure Web search engine quality . Additionally, quality assurance is an important aspect to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. This is fundamental to protect market shares and revenues from

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Section: Uniqueness Of Search Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?

Reilly

2008

Web Search

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“…The survey shows that research on evaluating search engines has not been carried out in a consistent fashion and as a result it is impossible to compare the performance of search engines as reported by different researchers. Schwartz [2] has reviewed the way web search engines operate and note the growing body of evaluation literature much of which is not systematic in nature. Another briefly reviews the development of web search engines and consider the current state of affair, and reflects, on their future.…”

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Search engines in the field of science and technology: a documentation-cum-evaluation

2017

IJLTET

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“…Search engines are the most visited sites on the web, they are used by 85% of users (Schwartz, 1998). However, they index only a fraction of all available information and their coverage does not increase as rapidly as the size of the Web.…”

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Custom Fusion Methode Based on Borda

Abdelbaki¹,

Benlahmar²,

Labriji³

2016

Int. J. Recent Contrib. Eng. Sci. IT

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Abstract-Searching for information on the Internet is not only an activity newly rediscovered, but also a strategic tool to achieve a wide variety of information. Indeed, it's extremely important to know how to find the information quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, the Web is so huge and so little structured, that gathering precise, fair and useful information becomes an expensive task. In order to define an information retrieval tool (meta search engine) that brings together multiple sources of information search, interest must be credited to the merger phase of search engines results. On the other hand, information search systems tend primarily to model the user with a profile and then to integrate it into the information access chain, to better meet its specific needs. This paper presents a custom fusion method based on Borda method and values retrieved from the user profile. We evaluated our approach on multiple domains and we present some experimental results.

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Web search engines

Cited by 90 publications

References 7 publications

‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?

‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?

Search engines in the field of science and technology: a documentation-cum-evaluation

Custom Fusion Methode Based on Borda

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