... 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...

... and functionalities of ICT available to them” (Díaz Andrade and Doolin, 2019 , p. 167). Search engines Information practices Relevance Recommender systems Information searching Everyday life Algorithmic recommendations This exploratory study deals with the technology-mediated everyday information...

...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...

..., and interaction in defining the role of Google. In relation to school, the fact-finding framing is more pronounced whereas the infrastructure framing comes forth more in their free time activities. The authority framing cuts across both framings and underpins their trust in the search engine. The study...

... discussion in information science on the role of online searching in society and everyday life. Olof Sundin can be contacted at: olof.sundin@kultur.lu.se 14 06 2016 12 09 2016 22 09 2016 While most people use search engines daily, studying searching in everyday life...

...Olof Sundin; Hanna Carlsson It is evident in the previous research presented above how search engines defragment a field of knowing and how the sheer amount of possible information sources makes a complete picture impossible. What we do not know is how those who are supposed to educate our youth...

...”) 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...

...Andrew MacFarlane Edited by Dirk   Lewansowksi . Web Search Engine Research . Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited   2012 . 322 pp.   £67.95 (hardback) , ISBN: 1780526369 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Search engines Information retrieval...

...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...

... to index images within a collection. Many web search engines use textual clues within web documents to automate this concept‐based approach. Marsh and White (2003) researched how an image relates to the surrounding text. These web search engines use text surrounding the multimedia object, along...

...). 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...

... registration for access. Some of these sites are fee‐based, but many are free of charge. However, in both cases, search engine crawlers are not able to satisfy the registration requirements and cannot access these resources. … the invisible web comprises all the information sources available on the web...

...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...

...David Bawden © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Internet Information retrieval Search engines Portals A Librarian’s Guide to the Internet: Searching and Evaluating Jeanne Froidevaux MüllerChandos PublishingOxford2003ISBN 1843340569 Google: The Missing Manual...

..., 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...

...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...

...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...