...Mhamed Zineddine Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to decrease the traffic created by search engines’ crawlers and solve the deep web problem using an innovative approach. Design/methodology/approach – A new algorithm was formulated based on best existing algorithms to optimize...

...Ashish Kathuria; Bernard J. Jansen; Carolyn Hafernik; Amanda Spink Purpose Web search engines are frequently used by people to locate information on the Internet. However, not all queries have an informational goal. Instead of information, some people may be looking for specific web sites or may...

... searchable and accessible. Brian D. Davison can be contacted at davison@ cse.lehigh.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Search engines Worldwide web The search for information can take many forms. The availability of multiple kinds of search tools both helps and hurts...

.../approach Explaining the calculation, implementation and impact of the PageRank and Topic Sensitive Page Ranking is the prerequisite to recapitulating existing search engine optimization strategies and to identifying new methods for leveraging the Internet for sales and marketing purposes. Findings...

... bookmarking sites. A separate study was made into 50 non‐optimized web pages for comparison. Findings The paper provides insight into the techniques that successful Search Engine Optimizers use to ensure a page ranks highly in Google. Recognizes the importance of PageRank and links as well as directories...

...Amanda Spink; Bernard J. Jansen; Vinish Kathuria; Sherry Koshman Purpose This paper reports the findings of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by three major web search engines. The goal of the research was to: measure the overlap across three major web search engines...

...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...

... ranking items in search results. This approach is intuitive and requires no training data at all. Findings A user study showed that users are more satisfied with the proposed search methods than with general search engines using hot keywords. Moreover, two performance measures confirmed...

... job‐related queries to a major web search engine at three points in time over a five‐year period. Findings Results indicate that individuals seeking job information generally submit only one query with several terms and over 45 percent of job‐seeking queries contain a specific location reference...

...Amanda Spink; Bernard J. Jansen; H. Cenk Ozmultu Examines the use of query reformulation, and particularly the use of relevance feedback by users of the Excite Web search engine. A total of 985 user search sessions from a data set of 18,113 user search sessions containing 51,473 queries were...

... bots are fruitful areas for further research. Internet Search engines Consumer behaviour Shopping E‐commerce This study is based on visits to the shopping bots listed in Table I. They have largely been selected from the list available at botspot and smartbots, with one or two other...

... of commercial search engines are shown to illustrate that Jamaica is able to obtain more relevant information compared to a single search engine. Jamaica is built on a Client/Server architecture. Figure 1 shows the relationship between the Client and Server components, together with their respective...