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Internet search engines

open access: yesCybrarians Journal, 2004
A general study on Internet search engines, which addresses seven main points: the difference between search engines and directories, the components of Internet search engines and how they work, the percentage of sites covered by search engines out of ...
Fatima Al Zahraa Mohamed
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Multimedia search engines: concept, performance, types

open access: yesCybrarians Journal, 2005
A study on multimedia search engines on the Internet. The study begins with an introduction, then deals with defining the concept of search engines, then defines multimedia search engines, and presents the types of search engines.
Sayed Rabie
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Commercial Intent of Search Results on Their Perceived Relevance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We carried out a retrieval effectiveness test on the three major web search engines (i.e., Google, Microsoft and Yahoo). In addition to relevance judgments, we classified the results according to their commercial intent and whether or not they carried ...
Lewandowski, Dirk
core   +1 more source

Search engine user behaviour: How can users be guided to quality content? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The typical behaviour of the Web search engine user is widely known: a user only types in one or a few keywords and expects the search engine to produce relevant results in an instant. Search engines not only adapt to this behaviour.
Lewandowski, Dirk
core   +1 more source

Searching with XQ [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2014
We demonstrate XQ, a query engine that implements a novel technique for searching relevant information on the web and in various data sources, called Exemplar Queries. While the traditional query model expects the user to provide a set of specifications that the elements of interest need to satisfy, XQ expects the user to provide only an element of ...
Mottin, Davide   +3 more
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Comparative analysis of some search engines

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2010
We compared the information retrieval performances of some popular search engines (namely, Google, Yahoo, AlltheWeb, Gigablast, Zworks and AltaVista and Bing/MSN) in response to a list of ten queries, varying in complexity.
Joseph Edosomwan, Taiwo Edosomwan
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Understanding User Behavioral Intention to Adopt a Search Engine that Promotes Sustainable Water Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
An increase in users’ online searches, the social concern for an efficient management of resources such as water, and the appearance of more and more digital platforms for sustainable purposes to conduct online searches lead us to reflect more on the ...
Palos Sánchez, Pedro Ramiro   +3 more
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Persian Search Engines Based on a Dialectical Paradigm: Parsijoo, Yooz, and Rismoon [PDF]

open access: yesکتابداری و اطلاع‌رسانی, 2021
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Parsijoo, Yooz, and Rismoon search engines to determine the efficient search engine to retrieve relevant documents to users. Methodology: This research was an applied evaluative study.
Mahdi Zeynali Tazehkandi   +2 more
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Academic Search Engines: Constraints, Bugs, and Recommendation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Background: Academic search engines (i.e., digital libraries and indexers) play an increasingly important role in systematic reviews however these engines do not seem to effectively support such reviews, e.g., researchers confront usability issues with the engines when conducting their searches.
arxiv  

The Edisyn search engine

open access: yesOslo Studies in Language, 2011
Edisyn (European Dialect Syntax) is an ESF-funded project on dialect syntax. It runs at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam from September 2005 until September 2010. It aims at achieving two goals. One is to establish a European network of (dialect)syntacticians that use similar standards with respect to methodology of data collection, data storage and
Jan Pieter Kunst, Franca Wesseling
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