Effectiveness evaluation and comparison of Web search engines and meta-search engines

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3129, Issue , 2004, Pages 303-314

  Wu, Shengli ^a   Li, Jieyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION; KEY WORDS; LONG QUERIES; META SEARCH ENGINES; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; WEB SEARCHES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 29244487177     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27772-9_31     Document Type: Article

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