Web search efficacy: Definition and implementation

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 349-363

  Mansourian, Yazdan ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information literacy; Information retrieval; Information searches; User studies; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REVIEWS;

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DATA SETS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMPIRICAL DATA; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; INFORMATION SEEKING; SEARCH PROCEDURES; SEARCH STRATEGIES; USERS' PERCEPTIONS; WEB SEARCHES; WEB USERS; WEB-SEARCHING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 47949104081     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530810887980     Document Type: Article

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