Savvy searching: Dubious hit counts and cuckoo's eggs

Online Information Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 188-193

  Jacsó, Péter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Information retrieval; Search engines

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

INFORMATIVE HIT FIGURES; SCHOLARLY MATERIALS;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 33646342255     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520610659201     Document Type: Review

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