Non-english web search: An evaluation of indexing and searching the Greek web

Information Retrieval

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 352-379

  Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^a   Malevris, Nicos ^b   Kousaridas, Apostolos ^b,c   Lepeniotou, Alexandra ^b,d   Loutas, Nikos ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Technological Educational Institution   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Greek queries; Greek web; Homepage finding; Navigational queries; Non English web search; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749115632     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-008-9084-6     Document Type: Article

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