... significance, as does the proliferation of home-education induced by COVID-19. Additionally, while much work problematises the power search engines wield to privilege certain discourses, few investigate the day-to-day discursive practices of searchers affording Google and others this power. Renee Morrison...

...), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Search engines Information practices Relevance Recommender systems Information searching Everyday life Algorithmic...

...Sebastian Schultheiß; Dirk Lewandowski Purpose In commercial web search engine results rankings, four stakeholder groups are involved: search engine providers, users, content providers and search engine optimizers. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a multi-billion-dollar industry and responsible...

...Cecilia Andersson The paper thus focuses on various aspects of online searching pertaining to the use of Google. In line with previous research (Sundin et al., 2017), online searching is here defined as the use of general purpose search engines and it is viewed as a mundane activity...

.... This study investigates the role of online searching in everyday life. Online searching – typically understood as the use of general purpose search engines – has developed into a close to naturalised part of most peoples’ lives and the dominant search engine Google has gained a prominent status...

...Olof Sundin; Hanna Carlsson Olof Sundin can be contacted at: olof.sundin@kultur.lu.se The study develops a critical understanding of the role of searching and search engines as technologies of literacy in relation to critical assessment in schools. This is of value for information...

...”) for a group of writings that are recognized by the public in some particular way? What does it mean when a search engine, or catalog, asks a user to enter the name of an author? And how does that accord with the manner in which the data have been entered in association with the names of the entities...

... for around 40 years – and look to more user focused evaluation methods and metrics, e.g. examining logs of online sessions. Deneck reviews the concept of diversity. Many web search engines attempt to resolve a query by returning one interpretation of a given topic, e.g. virus – which can be a medical...

...Natalie Clewley; Sherry Y. Chen; Xiaohui Liu Purpose Cognitive style has been identified to be significantly influential in deciding users' preferences of search engines. In particular, Witkin's field dependence/independence has been widely studied in the area of web searching. It has been...

...Dirk Lewandowski Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare five major web search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, and Seekport) for their retrieval effectiveness, taking into account not only the results, but also the results descriptions. Design/methodology/approach The study uses...

... and efficient design of image IR systems that use the context, content, or hybrid approaches. The research results presented in this article focus on the information needs of web users as represented by their image queries. Using image queries submitted to a major web search engine, we classify user queries...

...). Design/methodology/approach The Web intelligence techniques in this study are a combination of link analysis (web structure mining), web server log file analysis (web usage mining), and text analysis (web content mining), utilizing the power of commercial search engines and drawing upon the information...

...Judit Bar‐Ilan; Mark Levene; Mazlita Mat‐Hassan Purpose The objective of this paper is to characterize the changes in the rankings of the top ten results of major search engines over time and to compare the rankings between these engines. Design/methodology/approach The papers compare rankings...

... Information retrieval Search engines Worldwide web Information research “Invisible” web resources consist of material that general‐purpose search engines either cannot, or are not intended to index. Minkle (2002) called such invisible resources the “buried treasure of the web”. He noted...

...Alan Dawson; Val Hamilton Purpose This paper aims to show how information in digital collections that have been catalogued using high‐quality metadata can be retrieved more easily by users of search engines such as Google. Design/methodology/approach The research and proposals described arose...

... and tips in the book. That is likely to be all of us: the Internet is an information environment of such complexity and changing nature that it is hard to believe that anyone truly knows it all. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Internet Information retrieval Search engines...

..., information management and information systems, searched for two topics using the AltaVista search engine. Logs of the resultant 341 queries, along with relevance judgements for over 4,000 retrieved items, were analysed using factor analysis and regression. The differing but complementary types and strengths...

...Mike Thelwall Search engines index only a proportion of the web and this proportion is not determined randomly but by following algorithms that take into account the properties that impact factors measure. A survey was conducted in order to test the coverage of search engines and to decide whether...

...C. Oppenheim; A. Morris; C. McKnight; S. Lowley The literature of the evaluation of Internet search engines is reviewed. Although there have been many studies, there has been little consistency in the way such studies have been carried out. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that recall...