Online IR system evaluation: Online databases versus Web search engines

Online Information Review

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-219

  Xie, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Internet; Online databases; Search engines

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS; ONLINE DATABASES; ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG (OPAC);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3142530665     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520410543652     Document Type: Article

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