The invisible web: An empirical study of "cognitive invisibility"

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 584-596

  Ford, Nigel ^a   Mansourian, Yazdan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Information research; Information retrieval; Search engines; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748794255     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410610688732     Document Type: Article

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