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...

conclusions as literature research is one of the most important stages of research, it's better for researchers, especially substance-related disorders scholars to use different search engines with the best recall, preciseness and importance in that subject field to reach desirable results while searching and they don’t depend on just one search engine. results results have shown that the ...

Graph size, density, and number of labels negatively impact on the performance of all the engines. Graph summarization seems to be more affected by the graph density and the number of labels. Dense graph is more influenced by the size of the graphs. RDF-3X outperforms the rest of the engines in pattern matching and graph creation. DEX seems to overcome the rest of the engines when the graphs ar...

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 ...

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...

The growing world-wide globalization and the possibility to use new innovations of the digital economy leads to the fact that more and more processes and services are being virtualized. The purpose of this paper is to describe, synthesize, evaluate, and integrate the results of prior research on Process Virtualization Theory by conducting a systematic literature review. We selected six academic...

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...

This study evaluated two different types of online information retrieval (IR) systems: online databases and Web search engines, in terms of user generated criteria. It also compares four types of Web search engines: directories, search engines, meta-search engines, and specialized search engines. The results show that three elements are essential to users in the evaluation of online IR systems:...

Although search engines are essential tools for finding information on the World Wide Web, the effective use of search engines for information retrieval (IR) is a crucial challenge for any Internet user. Based on the user-focused approach, this study investigates individual information retrieval behaviors using information processing theory. The results show that experience with search engines ...

nowadays, the internet has had a rapid expansion and presence in all areas of the individuals, institutions, companies and organizations lives. this has made large extent of data available so that the users need to access their desired information or services through using search engines. to continue and promote providing services, search engines require a source of income. sponsored search adv...