Heuristics, tools, and systems for evaluating Internet information: Helping users assess a tangled Web

Online Information Review

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 321-327

  Fritch, John W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information; Internet; Systems software; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SEARCH ENGINES;

TAXONOMY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 0242575913     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520310502270     Document Type: Review

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