Dynamics of search engine rankings - A case study

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 703, Issue , 2004, Pages 3-13

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a,b   Levene, Mark ^c   Mat Hassan, Mazlita ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC NATURE; HIGHLY STABLES; SEARCH ENGINES - GOOGLE;

DYNAMICS; SEARCH ENGINES; TIME SWITCHES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84883611904     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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