How much of it is real? Analysis of paid placement in web search engine results

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 448-461

  Nicholson, Scott ^a   Sierra, Tito ^b   Eseryel, U Yeliz ^a   Park, Ji Hong ^a   Barkow, Philip ^a   Pozo, Erika J ^a   Ward, Jane ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL DATABASE; SEARCH TOOLS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33645001806     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20318     Document Type: Article

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