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Peer reviewedThelwall, Mike – Internet Research, 2002
Describes Web survey methodologies used to study the content of the Web, and discusses search engines and the concept of crawling the Web. Highlights include Web page selection methodologies; obstacles to reliable automatic indexing of Web sites; publicly indexable pages; crawling parameters; and tests for file duplication. (Contains 62…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Indexing, Measurement Techniques, Search Engines
Peer reviewedJacso, Peter – Online Information Review, 2001
Describes indexes to Web resources that have been created by librarians to be more discriminating than the usual Web search engines, some of which are organized by standard classification systems. Includes indexes by solo librarians as well as by groups of librarians, some in public libraries and some in higher education. (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Indexing, Librarians
Peer reviewedFast, Karl V.; Campbell, D. Grant – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 2001
Compares the implied ontological frameworks of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and the World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web. Discusses current search engine technology, semantic markup, indexing principles of special libraries and online databases, and componentization and the distinction between data and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data, Indexing, Metadata
Peer reviewedYang, Christopher C.; Chung, Alan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Discusses problems when searching the Web for financial information and presents a personal agent that utilizes user profiles and user relevance feedback to search for Chinese Web financial news articles on behalf of users. Explains the development of a Chinese indexing component and describes experiments that measured the performance of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Indexing, Measurement Techniques, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Peer reviewedCohen, Sara; Kanza, Yaron; Kogan, Yakov; Sagiv, Yehoshua; Nutt, Werner; Serebrenik, Alexander – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Describes EquiX, a search language for XML that combines querying with searching to query the data and the meta-data content of Web pages. Topics include search engines; a data model for XML documents; search query syntax; search query semantics; an algorithm for evaluating a query on a document; and indexing EquiX queries. (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Jansen, Bernard J. – 2002
End user searching on the Web has become the primary method of locating images for many people. This study investigates the nature of Web image queries by attempting to map them to known image classification schemes. In this study, approximately 100,000 image queries from a major Web search engine were collected in 1997, 1999, and 2001. A…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer System Design, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedCook, Douglas – Research Strategies, 2000
Describes a collaborative workshop designed by the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania to identify and teach World Wide Web search skills to librarians. Highlights include how information get on the Web and is indexed; evaluation of Web resources; types of search sites; and which search engine is the best. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Indexing
Peer reviewedRasmussen, Edie M. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2003
Explores current research on indexing and ranking as retrieval functions of search engines on the Web. Highlights include measuring search engine stability; evaluation of Web indexing and retrieval; Web crawlers; hyperlinks for indexing and ranking; ranking for metasearch; document structure; citation indexing; relevance; query evaluation;…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval
