Information retrieval from the World Wide Web: A user-focused approach based on individual experience with search engines

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 501-517

  Liaw, Shu Sheng ^a   Huang, Hsiu Mei ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Information processing theory; Information retrieval; Search engines; User focused approach

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIRECTORY-BASED SERVICE; INFORMATION-PROCESSING THEORY; USER-FOCUSED APPROACH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 30144446187     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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