in this research the degree to which search abilities have been inserted into the search engines of persian and non-persian e-journals has been investigated. 97 persian e-journals (pej) and 30 non-persian, in this case english, e-journals (eej) represent the research population. the required data were gathered through designing a checklist, which was filled out for each pej and eej. the results...

background: knowing the rate of overlapping in results obtained from information retrieval tools is important to prevent waste of time. medical and health-related information has an outstanding place among the variety of information available on the internet. hence, this research aimed to study the rate of overlap among medical search results derived from mesh (medical subject headings) in gene...

this study aimed to evaluate persian search engines based on the criteria obtained from alexa databank using correspondence analysis. through searching the web, 23 search engines were found, which due to their cease and no coverage by alexa, this number was reduced to 16. data analysis revealed that ghatreh search engine occupied a high rank in most of attributes like traffic rank, time spent o...

introduction: users’ performance and their interaction with information retrieval systems can be observed in development of their mental models. users, especially users of health, use mental models to facilitate their interactions with these systems and incomplete or incorrect models can cause problems for them . the aim of this study was the adjustment and development of health user’s mental m...

purpose: the purpose of the present study is to investigate the image search and retrieval problems in selected search engines in relation to the persian writing style challenges. methodology: this study is an applied one. in orderto answer the questions an evaluative method and direct observation were used. the aim of the research is to explore the morphological and semantic problems of persia...

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...

Search engines are still the most important gates for information search in internet. In this regard, providing the best response in the shortest time possible to the user's request is still desired. Normally, search engines are designed for adults and few policies have been employed considering teen users. Teen users are more biased in clicking the results list than are adult users. This leads...