Brand and its effect on user perception of search engine performance

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1572-1595

  Jansen, Bernard J ^a   Zhang, Mimi ^a   Schultz, Carsten D ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENGINE PERFORMANCE; ENGINE SELECTION; FACTORIAL DESIGN; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS PAGES; SEARCHING PERFORMANCE; USER PERCEPTIONS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES;

ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MACHINE DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 67650895636     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21081     Document Type: Article

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