The market structure for Internet search engines

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-160

  Telang, Rahul ^a   Rajan, Uday ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Tridas ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

E commerce; Market structure; Product differentiation; Residual demand; Search engines

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY;

ENTRANT COST ADVANTAGE; MARKET STRUCTURE; PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION; RESIDUAL DEMAND;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 7444251116     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2004.11045805     Document Type: Article

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