Searching for people on Web search engines

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 266-278

  Spink, Amanda ^a   Jansen, Bernard J ^a   Pedersen, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Overture Web Search Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information searches; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942696276     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410410534176     Document Type: Article

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