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Author
Chu, H.
Rosenthal, M.
Title
Search engines for the World Wide Web : a comparative study and evaluation methodology
Source
Global complexity: information, chaos and control. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, ASIS'96, Baltimore, Maryland, 21-24 Oct 1996. Ed.: S. Hardin
Imprint
Medford, NJ : Learned Information
Year
1996
Pages
S.127-135
Abstract
Compares 3 WWW search engines (AltaVista, Excite, and Lycos) in terms of their search capabilities and retrieval performances using sample queires drawn from real reference questions. AltaVista outperformed Excite and Lycos in both search facilities and retrieval performance although Lycos had the largest coverage of WWW resources among the 3 WWW search engines examined. Proposes a methodology for evaluating other WWW search engines
Theme
Suchmaschinen
Object
AltaVista
Lycos
Excite

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