Relevance ranking is not relevance ranking or, when the user is not the user, the search results are not search results

Online Information Review

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 831-844

  Bade, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Information operations; Information retrieval; Search engines

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIGITAL LIBRARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFORMATION OPERATIONS; RELEVANCE RANKING; TERMINOLOGICAL CONFUSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 36448943948     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520710841793     Document Type: Article

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