The number of documents that are indexed by a search engine is referred to as the size of the search engine. The information about the size of each underlying search engine is ess...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search tec...
A search engine evaluation model that considers over seventy performance and feature parameters is presented. The design of a web-based system that allows the user to tailor the m...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...