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Peer reviewedBar-Ilan, Judit – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Introduces methods for evaluating Web search engine performance over a time period. Describes the necessary setup for such studies, illustrates the use of these measures through a specific example, and recommends the use of the measures as a guideline for testing and improving search engine functionality. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Measurement Techniques, Online Searching
Peer reviewedBar-Ilan, Judit – Journal of Information Science, 2002
Discussion of bibliometric studies on the World Wide Web focuses on results of a search for links to the home page of the electronic journal "Cybermetrics". Presents results of a content analysis that showed search engines do not retrieve all the link pages that are indexed by them. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Case Studies, Content Analysis, Electronic Journals
Peer reviewedBar-Ilan, Judit – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2004
Reviews the literature on the use of Web search engines in information science research, including: ways users interact with Web search engines; social aspects of searching; structure and dynamic nature of the Web; link analysis; other bibliometric applications; characterizing information on the Web; search engine evaluation and improvement; and…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Seeking, Information Technology, Interaction
