Purpose – The objective of this paper is to characterize the changes in the rankings of the top ten results of major search engines over time and to compare the rankings between these engines. Design/methodology/approach – The papers compare rankings of the top-ten results of the search engines Google and AlltheWeb on ten identical queries over a period of three weeks. Only the top-ten results ...

Zusammenfassung Mit einem Sprachenidentifizierer für 45 Sprachen wurden die prozentualen Anteile der verschiedenen Sprachen an allen Webseiten durch eine repräsentative Analyse des Indexes von AllTheWeb vom Sommer 1999 ermittelt. Zunächst wird die Funktionsweise und die Performanz des verwendeten Sprachenidentifizierers kurz dargestellt Im Hauptteil werden die Ergebnisse der Index-Auswertung pr...

The objective of this study was to characterize the changes in the rankings of the top-n results of major search engines over time and to compare the rankings between these engines. We considered only the top-ten results, since users usually inspect only the first page returned by the search engine, which normally contains ten results. In particular, we compare rankings of the top ten results o...

THISARTICLE E X A M I N E S the public searching of the Web and provides an overview of recent research exploring what we know about how people search the Web. The article reports selected findings from studies conducted from 1997to 2002 using large-scale Web user data provided by commercial Web companies, including Excite, AskJeeves, and AlltheWeb.com. We examined what topics people search for...

Many high quality, open access scholarly journals have been published on the Web. However, many of them do not offer a search program to find articles in their article archive. They provide access only via browsing through/digging down the volumes, issues, and table of content pages. Archives of many other open access scholarly journals do offer search options, but these have often very limited...

of the increasing presence of scientific publications on the Web, combined with the existing difficulties in easily verifying and retrieving these publications, research on techniques and methods for retrieval of scientific Web publications is called for. In this article, we report on the initial steps taken toward the construction of a test collection of scientific Web publications within the ...

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need to understand what Web searching trends are emerging within the various global regions. What are the regional differences and trends in Web searching, if any? What is the effectiveness of Web search ...

World Wide Web is growing day by day so with this rapid development in the size of internet, Information extraction[1] on Internet is gaining its importance day by day. At present there are millions of Websites and billions of homepages available on the Internet. A large amount of on-line information resides on the invisible web[2] – web pages generated dynamically from databases and other data...

Due to the rapid growth of the number of digital media elements like image, video, audio, graphics on Internet, there is an increasing demand for effective search and retrieval techniques. Recently, many search engines have made image search as an option like Google, AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Freenet. In addition to this, Ditto, Picsearch, can search only the images on Internet. There are also othe...