Implementation and evaluation of a quality-based search engine

Proceedings of the Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'06

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 73-84

  Mandl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quality models; Quality search; Web design; Web metrics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB; WEBSITES;

QUALITY MODELS; QUALITY SEARCH; WEB DESIGN; WEB METRICS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 34247391577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1149941.1149957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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