Investigation of the accuracy of search engine hit counts

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-480

  Uyar, Ahmet ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Document indexing and counting; Search engine evaluation; Webometrics

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; DOCUMENT INDEXING AND COUNTING; HIT COUNT; MICROSOFT; QUERY WORDS; SEARCH QUERIES; WEBOMETRICS;

ESTIMATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ENGINES;

EID: 68249153264     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551509103598     Document Type: Article

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