Evaluating the stability of the search tools Hotbot and Snap: a case study

Online Information Review

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 439-450

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Interfaces; Internet; Reliability; User studies

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIES; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELIABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

DATA COLLECTION; SEARCH INTERFACES; SEARCH TOOLS; USER STUDIES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0347898840     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520010362099     Document Type: Article

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