Service quality of internet search engines

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 499-507

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES; SERVICE QUALITY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0033336045     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159902500606     Document Type: Article

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