Agreeing to disagree: Search engines and their public interfaces

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 309-318

  McCown, Frank ^a   Nelson, Michael L ^a  

^a ECS Building   (United States)

Author keywords

API; Distance measurement; Search engine interfaces; Search engine results

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES;

PREDICTIVE MODELS; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 36349016704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1255175.1255237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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