...Sumeer Gul; Sabha Ali; Aabid Hussain Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the retrieval performance of three search engines, i.e. Google, Yahoo and Bing for navigational queries using two important retrieval measures, i.e. precision and relative recall in the field of life science...

... as one of the basic tools in search engine optimisation. The analysis has indicated a relatively high percentage of spam web directories. The evidence of this is the number of directories with undetermined PageRank values. The study revealed that careful management of a directory and its subject have key...

...B.T. Sampath Kumar; G.T. Kumar Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of various search engines and meta search engines by Indian academics for retrieving information on the web. It also aims to know whether the academics use search strategy of various search engines...

... it for research purposes. Google and Yahoo were the leading search engines used to explore resources, while the students acquired internet search knowledge and skills through teaching themselves followed by computer training programmes. It was also discovered that irregular electricity supply was the leading...

...Emmanouel Garoufallou Purpose The use of search engines is the most widely acceptable way for information foraging on the net. Their wide use as an information retrieval tool has created the need for their evaluation as a means of improving their performance. This research attempts to record Greek...

...Shiv Kumar Purpose The aim of this paper is to study the impact of internet search engine usage with special reference to OPAC searches in the Punjabi University Library, Patiala, Punjab (India). Design/methodology/approach The primary data were collected from 352 users comprising faculty...

...   Hock . The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher (3rd ed.) . New Jersey : CyberAge Books   2010 . 339 pp. , ISBN: 978‐0‐910965‐84‐2   £19.99 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Internet Search engines Group discussion Research...

... search approaches. A practical method was identified that allows users to directly leverage social search without special features built into search engines. Research limitations/implications For feasibility reasons, Google was used as an example of a search system that can be used for carrying out...

...Jane Secker Michael P.   Sauers . Searching 2.0 . London : Facet Publishing   2009 . 337 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐629‐9   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Social software Web 2.0 Internet Searching Search engines A few years ago I...

... of information beyond the reach of web crawlers. Other formats such as images and audio or video files may require specialist search engines. The book is divided into three main sections with additional material in the appendices. The first section, “Understanding the division between the visible...

... capacity, which will affect their assessment of what they have found. Moreover, the study explored qualitative aspects of searching (related to perceptions and conceptualisations) rather than quantitative measures, such as the number of queries and statistical tests. Worldwide web Search engines...

...Fotis Lazarinis Purpose Image searching is a common activity for web users. Search engines offer image retrieval services based on textual queries. Previous studies have shown that web searching is more demanding when the search is not in English and does not use a Latin‐based language. The aim...

... Searching Search engines Information literacy I've been teaching web searching skills to staff at the London School of Economics (LSE) for a number of years now, despite claims that “everyone just uses Google” and that “only librarians like to search, everyone else just wants to find information...

... the Instructional System Design (ISD) methodology to analyse, design and implement a training course for Greek users. This instructional approach considers the explanation of the internal search engine intelligence and inefficiencies with respect to non‐English natural language as its basic structural element...

...Martin Myhill Purpose To consider the findings of a recent e‐resources survey at the University of Exeter Library in the context of the dominance of web search engines in academia, balanced by the development of e‐library tools such as the library OPAC, OpenURL resolvers, metasearch engines, LDAP...

...Mary L. Robinson; Judith Wusteman Purpose To describe a small‐scale quantitative evaluation of the scholarly information search engine, Google Scholar. Design/methodology/approach Google Scholar's ability to retrieve scholarly information was compared to that of three popular search engines...

...Johnson Paul Randolph   Hock . Yahoo! to the Max . Medford, NJ : Information Today, Inc.   2005 . 256 pp. , ISBN: 0‐910965‐69‐2   $24.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Search engines Portals Internet Randolph Hock's Yahoo...

.... Literature Information retrieval United Kingdom Resource efficiency Search engines Internet Electronic access to information has now become commonplace in scholarly research circles in the UK and other developed countries. Electronic bibliographic databases in particular have transformed...

.... Phil   Bradley . The Advanced Internet Searcher's Handbook (3rd ed.) . London : Facet Publishing   2004 . 257 pp. , ISBN: 1‐85604‐523‐4   £34.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Internet Information retrieval Search engines This is the third edition...

... other than the crab! Judith A.   Bazler . Biology Resources in the Electronic Age . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press   2003 . 286 pp. , ISBN: 1‐57356‐380‐3   $49.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Electronic media Search engines Biology Internet...