Document (#22808)

Author

Ding, W.
Marchionini, G.

Title

¬A comparative study of Web search service performance

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.136-142

Abstract

Investigates the current state of search services conducted by comparing 3 popular WWW based search services: InfoSeek, Lycos and OpenText. A taxonomy of service features was first created to do a descriptive comparison. A set of 5 questions were used to conduct searches with the 3 services. Each service offered some advantage for specific queries although Lycos and OpenText showed better results for the different precision metrics used in this limited study. There was a low result overlap among the 3 services. None of the services provide good output control for users. Makes recommendations for improvements in display, indexing and updating

Footnote

Vgl.: Nicholson, S.: Raising reliability of Web search tools ... In: JASIS 51(2000) no.8, S.724-729

Theme

Suchmaschinen

Object

InfoSeek
Lycos
OpenText

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