Instability in search engine results: Lessons learned in the context of horizon scanning applications

Proceedings - International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 53-57

  Palomino, Marco A ^a   Taylor, Tim ^a   McBride, Geoff ^b   Owen, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

horizon scanning; search engine instability; Search engines; trend discovery and tracking; Web mining

Indexed keywords

HORIZON SCANNING; POTENTIAL THREATS; SEARCH ENGINE INTERFACES; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES; WEB MINING; WEB-BASED INFORMATION;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; SCANNING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84887866909     PISSN: 15294188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEXA.2013.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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