How Much Information Do Search Engines Disclose on the Links to a Web Page? A Longitudinal Case Study of the "Cybermetrics" Home Page.

Bar-Ilan, Judit

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ERIC Number: EJ668324

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Publication Date: 2002

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How Much Information Do Search Engines Disclose on the Links to a Web Page? A Longitudinal Case Study of the "Cybermetrics" Home Page.

Bar-Ilan, Judit

Journal of Information Science, v28 n6 p455-66 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, Longitudinal Studies, Search Engines, Web Sites, World Wide Web

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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