A study of metaindex mechanisms for selecting and ranking remote search engines

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 353-369

  Tseng, Judy C R ^a   Hwang, Gwo Jen ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Internet technology; Metaindex; Metasearch engine; Search engine; World wide web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTERNET; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; REMOTE SENSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; METAINDEX; METASEARCH ENGINES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33947717872     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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