Quantitative comparisons of search engine results

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1702-1710

  Thelwall, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; WIDER RANGE;

INTERNET;

EID: 51049099404     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20834     Document Type: Article

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