..., and Microsoft have been collaborating to ease the burden on webmasters by providing standards such as Sitemap, Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) and other enhancements including auto-discovery and cross-host submission (Garg, 2008). Information retrieval World wide web Search engines Crawlers Deep web...

... NCSA is making the complete Mosaic system freely available and distributable for all academic and research organizations and purposes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Communication technologies Information retrieval Internet In recent years the explosive global growth...

...‐commerce transactional web sites this work has not been undertaken for web sites designed for information retrieval, in particular little work has been done of health information web sites. This paper fills in some of the gaps. These features can have a positive impact on users' perception of health...

... research endeavors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Information retrieval Information theory Internet The business environment surrounding us has long been recognized as the “information economy” (Porat, 1977), an economy where information is a central input, activity...

... to be an indicator for the quality of that page. This measure is biased and cannot be solely trusted as a knowledge source for the quality of a page. Thomas Mandl can be contacted at: mandl@uni‐hildesheim.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Information retrieval Internet Worldwide web...

... displayed as results. As indirect hits, all relations with distance k=1 starting from the direct hits are included. Robert Loew can be contacted at: robert@loew.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Knowledge management Information retrieval Information services...

...H. Cenk Ozmutlu; Fatih Cavdur; Seda Ozmutlu Purpose Content analysis of search engine user queries is an important task, since successful exploitation of the content of queries can result in the design of efficient information retrieval algorithms of search engines, which can offer custom‐tailored...

... Information retrieval Internet users generally hope that search engines can locate the exact required information. The primary aim of search engine design lies in finding data relevant to user queries. This task is generally recognized as difficult (Jansen et al., 1998) because the inputs...

... is built on its foundation. As such, we provide a brief overview of information theory first before we discuss the model in full scale. Information retrieval Internet Consumer behaviour Despite the bubble burst of e‐commerce firms, electronic commerce transactions have gained...

...Bernard J. Jansen; Udo Pooch Much previous research on improving information retrieval applications has focused on developing entirely new systems with advanced searching features. Unfortunately, most users seldom utilize these advanced features. This research explores the use of a software agent...

... Internet Consumer behaviour Prices Information retrieval Efficiency Benefits Internet‐based services (e.g. search engines, shopbots) can provide one‐click access to price and product information from numerous competing retailers. They take a query, visit shops that may have the product...

..., but that about 17 percent publish general links, with implications for those designing and marketing Web sites. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Web sites Internet Information retrieval Marketing Advertising Electronic commerce The World Wide Web, although created and first used by academics...

... the delegated tasks. According to the abilities used, they can be classified as: intelligent agents, mobile agents, mobile and intelligent agents, and so on. The agents can also be classified according to the tasks they execute, such as: information filtering agents; information retrieval agents...

... Human‐computer interaction Information retrieval We investigated the use of query reformulation techniques by users of the Excite Web search engine, including their use of relevance feedback as a form of query reformulation during Web searching. Previous studies show that users of IR systems...

... in North America. Second, dot COM and certain regional domains seem to dominate the Internet commercial landscape. Finally, there is a measurable rate of attrition over time, which may or may not be truly significant. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Internet Web sites Information retrieval Sampling...

... of commercial search engines are shown to illustrate that Jamaica is able to obtain more relevant information compared to a single search engine. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Information retrieval Internet Search engines Access to information has never been so readily available as in this age...

... label generator. In this paper, the overall architecture of this agent is described and the details of the algorithms within its key components are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Agencies Algorithms Customer orientation Information retrieval Information systems Internet Many...

...Terje Brasethvik States that heterogeneous project groups today may be expected to use the mechanisms of the Web for sharing information. Metadata has been proposed as a mechanism for expressing semantics of information and, hence, facilitate information retrieval, understanding and use. Presents...

... of the peculiarities of the information sources. Several issues critical to Internet applications can then be charged on tuple centres transparently to agents. The effectiveness of the TuCSoN model is first shown by means of an application example in the area of Internet information retrieval, then discussed...

...). They are described in Internet guides such as those of Kehoe (1993), Hahn and Stout (1994), and Krol (1994). Gopher is the most widely used of these utilities (Berners‐Lee et al., 1994). Australia Communications Computer networks Databases Information retrieval Librarians Computer‐based...