Reliability verification of search engines' hit counts: How to select a reliable hit count for a query

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6385 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 114-125

  Funahashi, Takuya ^a   Yamana, Hayato ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

hit count; information retrieval; reliability; search engine; trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

HIT COUNT; SEARCH RESULTS; TRUSTWORTHINESS; USER QUERY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 78649832936     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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