A formal approach to evaluate and compare internet search engines: A case study on searching the chinese web

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3399, Issue , 2005, Pages 195-206

  Li, Kin F ^a   Wang, Yali ^a   Nishio, Shojiro ^b   Yu, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEARCH ENGINES;

CASE STUDY; INDISPENSABLE TOOLS; KEYWORDS; SEARCH CRITERIA;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 24144472524     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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