Assessing metasearch engine performance

Online Information Review

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1058-1065

  Sadeghi, Hamid ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Performance appraisal; Search engines; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

CLOSENESS DEGREE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; META SEARCH ENGINES; NOVEL METHODS; WEBCRAWLER;

ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; MACHINE DESIGN; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PERSONNEL; SEARCH ENGINES; STRAIN ENERGY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 73149116811     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520911011007     Document Type: Article

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