The effect of user intent on the stability of search engine results

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1276-1287

  Truran, Mark ^a   Schmakeit, Jan Felix ^b   Ashman, Helen ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79959380489     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21550     Document Type: Article

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