Finding information on the World Wide Web: The retrieval effectiveness of search engines

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-180

  Gordon, Michael ^a   Pathak, Praveen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ONLINE SEARCHING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0032643333     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(98)00041-7     Document Type: Article

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