A measure for evaluating search engines on the world wide web: Retrieval test with ESL (Expected Search Length)

Library and Information Science

Volumn , Issue 37, 1997, Pages 1-11

  Agata, Teru ^a   Nozue, Michiko ^b   Hattori, Norihiko ^a   Ueda, Shuichi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

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