Site-specific versus general purpose web search engines: A comparative evaluation

Proceedings - 12th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 44-48

  Atsaros, G ^a   Spinellis, D ^a   Louridas, P ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EFFICIENT SEARCHES; LOCAL SEARCHING; RELATIVE RECALLS; SEARCH SOFTWARES; TWO TYPES; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WEBSITES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57849125988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCI.2008.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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