Number of published scholarly articles is growing exponentially. To tackle this information overload, researchers are increasingly depending on niche academic search engines. Recent works have shown that two major general web search engines: Google and Bing, have high level of agreement in their top search results. In contrast, we show that various academic search engines have low degree of agr...

The semantic search engines have some advantages on the web search engines from the users view. In this fast life everybody need the answer for their queries very fast .In this scenario semantic searching engines will be helpful. It deals with the actual meaning of the queries. The tremendous growth in the volume of data or the information lead the traditional search engines to get the answers ...

As the number of academic papers and new technologies soars, it has been increasingly difficult for researchers, especially beginners, to enter a new research field. Researchers often need to study a promising paper in depth to keep up with the forefront of technology. Traditional Query-Oriented study method is time-consuming and even tedious. For a given paper, existent academic search engines...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper to investigate the effectiveness of selected search features in the major English and Chinese search engines and compare the search engines’ retrieval effectiveness. Design/approach/methodology – The search engines Google, Google China, and Baidu were selected for this study. Common search features such as title search, basic search, exact phrase search, PDF ...

Developers of search engines today do not only face technical problems such as designing an efficient crawler or distributing search requests among servers. Search has become a problem of identifying reliable information in an adversarial environment. Since the web is used for purposes as diverse as trade, communication, and advertisement search engines need to be able to distinguish different ...

The evaluation of their research work and its effect has always been one of scholars’ greatest concerns. The use of citations for that purpose, as proposed by Eugene Garfield, is nowadays widely accepted as the most reliable method. However, gathering a scholar’s citations constitutes a particularly laborious task, even in the current Internet era, as one needs to correctly combine information ...

Introduction. Investigates how effectively Web search engines index new sites from different countries. The primary interest is whether new sites are indexed equally or whether search engines are biased towards certain countries. If major search engines show biased coverage it can be considered a significant economic and political problem because of the international nature of the major search ...

purpose: the present research aimed to study internet and electronic recourses searching behavior of geography ph.d. students of tehran university. methodology: using a questionnaire survey, demographic features and educational trends of 61 studied students were analyzed. findings: results showed that all of the statistical population used e-mail services, databases and search engines. most of ...

This paper proposes a survey on various Meta Search Engines and the.Citation: Hamid Sadeghi, 2011 Automatic performance evaluation of web search engines using judgments of metasearch engines, Online Information Review.necessary in the performance evaluation of search engines. As page structure information e.g, HTML, pdf, ps tags, are deleted. After this, AWSEEM works like a meta-search engine a...

This article will explore the relation of search engines to the freedom they invoke in human subjects. Away from questions about the social impact of search engines and their ethical use, it shall investigate the influence of search engines on ethical subjectifications. The article will criticise the common critique that search engines should only deliver neutral and objective results to their ...