Web links and search engine ranking: The case of Google and the query "Jew"

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1581-1589

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

ANTI SEMITIC SITES; GOOGLE; INFORMATION SOURCES; WEB LINKS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33749402915     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20404     Document Type: Article

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