Methodological approaches in web search research

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Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-101

  Mansourian, Yazdan ^a   Madden, Andrew D ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information research; Information retrieval; Information searches; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SEARCHING; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; WEB-BASED SEARCH TOOLS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33847164068     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470710729146     Document Type: Review

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