...Faiz Alotaibi; Frances Johnson Purpose This study examines the use of the search engine, Google Scholar, from the perspective of a specific study group, that of international postgraduate students. Based on the theory of task perceived performance and effort expectancy influencing intention to use...

...Oghenemaro Anuyah; Ashlee Milton; Michael Green; Maria Soledad Pera Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine strengths and limitations that search engines (SEs) exhibit when responding to web search queries associated with the grade school curriculum Design/methodology/approach...

... of audience and impression management. Cecilia Andersson can be contacted at: cecilia.andersson@kultur.lu.se 14 06 2019 18 08 2019 16 09 2019 19 09 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Search engines...

...Dirk Lewandowski; Sebastian Sünkler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a new method to improve the analysis of search engine results by considering the provider level as well as the domain level. This approach is tested by conducting a study using queries on the topic of insurance...

...Artur Strzelecki Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify how many removal requests are made, how often, and who makes these requests, as well as which websites are reported to search engines so they can be removed from the search results. Design/methodology/approach Undertakes a deep...

...Cristina I. Font-Julian; José-Antonio Ontalba-Ruipérez; Enrique Orduña-Malea Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of the chosen search engine results page (SERP) on the website-specific hit count estimation indicator. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 100 Spanish...

...Isto Huvila Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the affective premises and economics of the influence of search engines on knowing and informing in the contemporary society. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual discussion of the affective premises and framings of the capitalist...

... consumers, waste management businesses and other authorities. Search engine use and waste sorting in Sweden are shown to be joined together in various mundane everyday life practices and practices of governance that become visible through the search engine in form of search results and suggested searches...

... pictures or images). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Search engines Information seeking behaviour Web search behaviour Information search Verbal/imagery cognitive styles The Web has become the most important information retrieval systems for many users since it contains...

...Hamid R. Jamali; A. Hossein Farajpahlou; Faeze Tabatabai Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the indexing quality and ranking of XML content objects containing Dublin Core and MARC 21 metadata elements in dynamic online information environments by general search engines such as Google...

...Mike Thelwall Purpose Link analysis is an established topic within webometrics. It normally uses counts of links between sets of web sites or to sets of web sites. These link counts are derived from web crawlers or commercial search engines with the latter being the only alternative for some...

...Dirk Lewandowski Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test major web search engines on their performance on navigational queries, i.e. searches for homepages. Design/methodology/approach In total, 100 user queries are posed to six search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, Seekport...

... entered popular usage as “a shorthand way of referring to a generation whose first port of call for knowledge is the internet and a search engine, Google being the most popular”. This is offered in contrast to earlier generations who “gained their knowledge through books and conventional libraries...

... Kingdom Academic libraries Search engines Database management systems Purchasing Metasearch systems, which allow simultaneous searching of multiple resources, are becoming more prevalent in libraries. In the UK, they have been adopted by many academic libraries looking to improve user...

... are depressed as well as the quality of the search engines crawling mechanism. Findings The paper shows how to use diagnostic measures in conjunction with precision in order to evaluate web search. Practical implications The methodology presented in this paper will be useful to any information...

...Jan Brophy; David Bawden Purpose The purpose of the study was to compare an internet search engine, Google, with appropriate library databases and systems, in order to assess the relative value, strengths and weaknesses of the two sorts of system. Design/methodology/approach A case study...

... Publishing Limited 2005 Worldwide web Search engines Politics When we read that bloggers, in 2003, focused media attention on dubious remarks uttered by Trent Lott, ultimately prompting the then Speaker of the House to resign, or when we read that bloggers dealt a decisive blow...

... and Moore (1995) also highlighted the fact that service brand names tend to be longer than those of product brand names (several words is often the norm). Bergstrom (2000) pointed out that: © Company 2004 Online cataloguing Search engines Databases Information services Portals Brand...

...Mike Thelwall; Liwen Vaughan Introduces several new versions of PageRank (the link based Web page ranking algorithm), based on an information science perspective on the concept of the Web document. Although the Web page is the typical indivisible unit of information in search engine results...