Comparing rankings of search results on the Web

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1511-1519

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comparison; Overlap; Ranking; Search engines

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SEARCH ENGINES; SET THEORY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPARISON; OVERLAP; RANKING; SPEARMAN CORRELATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 22944491447     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.008     Document Type: Article

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