Web search engines

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 973-982

  Schwartz, Candy ^a  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0001671216     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1998)49:11<973::AID-ASI3>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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