Location-based search engines tasks and capabilities: A comparative study

Webology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Asadi, Saeid ^a   Zhou, Xiaofang ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^b   Mofrad, Hossein Vakili ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Geographic search engines; Location based search; Web search

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949097892     PISSN: 1735188X     EISSN: 1735188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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