Evaluation of three German search engines: Altavista.de, Google.de and Lycos.de
The goal of this study was to investigate the retrieval effectiveness of three popular German Web search services. For this purpose the engines Altavista.de, Google.de and Lycos.de were compared with each other in terms of the precision of their top 20 results. The test panelists were based on a col...
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Main Author: | Joachim Griesbaum |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Borås
2004-01-01
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Series: | Information Research: An International Electronic Journal |
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Online Access: | http://informationr.net/ir/9-4/paper189.html |
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