Experiences evaluating personal metasearch

IIiX'08: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 136-138

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Hawking, David ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Funnelback Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENTS; META SEARCHES; ONLINE SOURCES; SEARCH RESULTS; SERVER SELECTIONS; TEST COLLECTIONS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 62949205591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414694.1414724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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