Malaysian Web search engines: A critical analysis

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-122

  Halim, Hananzita ^a   Kaur, Kiran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Malaysia; Web search enginen; Website evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952719279     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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