Developing an Efficient Model for Evaluating WWW Search Engines

The purpose of the work is to design an efficient methodology for evaluating the performance of public available WWW search engines. The first goal of this procedure is to develop a model representing WWW engines. This objective can only be accomplished by carefully studying the features of each search engine that is examined. This paper presents the methodology developed for evaluating the WWW search engines. As a consequence of developing the methodology of evaluating the performance of the engines, we evaluated, according to this model, a sample set of popular search engines. The second goal of this work was to study how each search engine index web pages in its respective database and thus to identify the means of preparing a web page, in order to be appropriately indexed by the search engines, and as a result to be in a high rank while querying for information relevant to that included in its content.