Quality dimensions of Internet search engines

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 365-372

  Xie, M ^a   Wang, H ^a   Goh, T N ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE SERVQUAL;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0032307683     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159802400509     Document Type: Article

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