The freshness of web search engine databases

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-148

  Lewandowski, Dirk ^a   Wahlig, Henry ^a   Meyer Bautor, Gunnar ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Index freshness; Index quality; Online information retrieval; Search engines; World wide web

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INDEX FRESHNESS; INDEX QUALITY; ONLINE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33644883049     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506062326     Document Type: Article

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