Overlap among major web search engines

Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-426

  Spink, Amanda ^a   Jansen, Bernard J ^b   Kathuria, Vinish ^c   Koshman, Sherry ^d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Infospace Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Search engines; World wide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747511445     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240610690034     Document Type: Article

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