Transforming the metasearch concept into a friendly user experience

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Sadeh, Tamar ^a  

^a Ex Libris Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Faceted browsing; Information retrieval; Metasearch; Relevance ranking; User experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948888706     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v12n01_01     Document Type: Article

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