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An analysis of Internet search engines: assessment of over 200 search queries
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This article is published in Computers in Libraries archive.The article was published on 1996-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 45 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metasearch engine & Search analytics.read more
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Finding information on the World Wide Web: the retrieval effectiveness of search engines
Michael D. Gordon,Praveen Pathak +1 more
TL;DR: Traditional information retrieval measures of recall and precision at varying numbers of retrieved documents are calculated and used as the bases for statistical comparisons of retrieval effectiveness among the eight search engines.
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First 20 precision among World Wide Web search services (search engines)
TL;DR: Analysis shows that Alta Vista, Excite and Infoseek are the top three services, with their relative rank changing depending on how one operationally defines the concept of relevance.
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Searching the Web: A survey of EXCITE users
TL;DR: The study is the first to investigate Web users’ successive searching behavior as they conduct related searches on the EXCITE Web search engine.
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Use of query reformulation and relevance feedback by Excite users
TL;DR: Results show limited use of query reformulation and relevance feedback by Excite users – only one in five users reformulated queries.
Search engine results over time-a case study on search engine stability
TL;DR: This paper examines the performance of search engines over time and finds that search engines loose information, relevant URLs that were retrieved at a given time by a certain search engine, were not retrieved by the same search engine at a later time, although they continued to exist and to be relevant.
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