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The Internet has become an indispensable tool for finding information quickly using a search engine. The usefulness of the information retrieved, is open to questions. It depends on the keyword used, the search criteria, the judgement of the user, and also on the effectiveness of the search engine. There are some published works, mostly online, that evaluate Internet search engines. Most of them, however, are either informal, focused on a few aspects, subjectively qualitative, or ad-hoc without a rigorous approach. In this work, we propose a formal mathematical model to evaluate and compare search engines. As a case study, five popular Chinese search engines are examined.
This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan’s Special Coordination Funds for promoting Science and Technology, under the project “Establishment of a Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing Platform for Mobile Computing Environment”, and in part by “Priority Assistance for the Formation of Worldwide Renowned Centers of Research – The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program” of the MEXT.
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Li, K.F., Wang, Y., Nishio, S., Yu, W. (2005). A Formal Approach to Evaluate and Compare Internet Search Engines: A Case Study on Searching the Chinese Web. In: Zhang, Y., Tanaka, K., Yu, J.X., Wang, S., Li, M. (eds) Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005. APWeb 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_20
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