Performance evaluation and comparison of the five most used search engines in retrieving web resources

Online Information Review

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 757-771

  Deka, Sanjib K ^a   Lahkar, Narendra ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Search engines; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX QUERIES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INTERNET RESOURCES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SEARCH RESULTS; TIME FRAME; WEB INFORMATION; WEB RESOURCES; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79551499272     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521011084609     Document Type: Article

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