Are pay for performance search engines relevant?

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 349-355

  Goh, Dion H ^a   Ang, Rebecca P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE SEARCH ENGINES; WEB PAGES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0036407539     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555150202800501     Document Type: Article

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