The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by multiple Web search engines for a large set of more than 10,000 queries. Previous smaller studies have discussed a lack of overlap i...

Annually, web search engine providers spend more and more money on documents ranking in search engines result pages (SERP). Click models provide advantageous information for ranking documents in SERPs through modeling interactions among users and search engines. Here, three modules are employed to create a hybrid click model; the first module is a PGM-based click model, the second module in a d...

In this study, we propose a novel way to explore the patterns of people’s visits to academic articles. About 3.4 million links to referral source of visitors of 1432 papers published in the journal of PeerJ are collected and analyzed. We find that at least 57% visits are from external referral sources, among which General Search Engine, Social Network, and News & Blog are the top three categori...

Abstract— This review paper presents a study about entity search engine .It describes details about entity search engine architecture and it’s working or the different methods adopted for entity extraction on it. All these methods are described based on the working examples such as entity cube and Microsoft academic search. Search engine for searching the summaries of an entity that make the us...

A Web Search Engine searches for information in the World Wide Web. The number of web resources increases every day but the user is often unable to get the exact information due to the different page ranking techniques followed by individual Search Engines. Meta Search Engines solve this problem to a certain level by using more than one search engines. A Vertical Search Engine is used to provid...

Information retrieval and search engines are almost synonymise. Usually search engines are employed to perform the search activity. If search engines merely return search results without much analysis, a user will be overwhelmed with search results. The aim is to return results that are relevant and not cornucopia of search results. Search engines today utilise many methods in order to provide ...

Among the search tools currently on the Web, search engines are the most well known thanks to the popularity of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. While extremely successful, these major search engines do have serious limitations. This book introduces large-scale metasearch engine technology, which has the potential to overcome the limitations of the major search engines. Essential...

The topic of search engine enterprise—discussed relentlessly in the business world—has somehow slipped under the radar of librarians, educators, most academics, and the news media (save for the business section). Even as search engines become increasingly reconditioned to serve free enterprise, and now address people as consumers rather than users, the industry has been particularly good at sus...

applications on the web today. So many search engines have been created that it is difficult for users to know where they are, how to use them, and what topics they best address. Metasearch engines reduce the user burden by dispatching queries to multiple search engines in parallel. The SAVVYSEARCH metasearch engine is designed to efficiently query other search engines by carefully selecting th...