We report results for an independent, blind evaluation of the performance of 11 commercial search engines on 106 online service queries and on 54 topic relevance queries. We found...
Researchers of commercial search engines often collect data using the application programming interface (API) or by "scraping" results from the web user interface (WUI),...
MetaCrystal enables users to visualize and control the degree of overlap between the results returned by different search engines. Several linked overview tools support rapid expl...
In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
This paper presents a system for bilingual information retrieval using commercial off-the-shelf search engines (COTS). Several custom query construction, expansion and translation ...
David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barriè...