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The effect of a website directory when employed in browsing the results of a search engine

Keizo Sato (Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Oita University, Oita‐shi, 870‐1192 Japan)
Akira Ohtaguro (Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Oita University, Oita‐shi, 870‐1192 Japan)
Makoto Nakashima (Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Oita University, Oita‐shi, 870‐1192 Japan)
Tetsuro ITO (Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Oita University, Oita‐shi, 870‐1192 Japan)

International Journal of Web Information Systems

ISSN: 1744-0084

Article publication date: 1 February 2005

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Abstract

A method for improving the retrieval effectiveness of a search engine by employing a website directory, e.g., Yahoo! Japan directory or Google directory, as a concept dictionary is proposed. A user can examine the results of a search engine from the top rank as usual except that he/she is assisted by a suggestion about which webpages are worthy of examination. To make a suggestion the conceptual closeness of an unexamined webpage to a query or to each of the webpages that a user has been interested in is calculated via a website directory. The proposed method was evaluated on the search results of Japanese Excite.

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Sato, K., Ohtaguro, A., Nakashima, M. and ITO, T. (2005), "The effect of a website directory when employed in browsing the results of a search engine", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 43-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/17440080580000082

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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