Measuring search engine bias

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1193-1205

  Mowshowitz, Abbe ^a   Kawaguchi, Akira ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Retrieval performance; Search engine profiles; Search engines; Statistical analysis of bias measure

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

BIAS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SEARCH ENGINE PROFILES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF BIAS MEASURE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 16244392065     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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