Which search engine is best at finding online services?

David Hawking; Nick Craswell; Kathy Griffiths

Which search engine is best at finding online services?

David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Kathy Griffiths

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Abstract

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 a strong correlation between performance on the two types of query and significant differences between
engines.

Original language	English
Journal	Poster Proceedings
Publication status	Published - 2001
Event	International World Wide Web Conference 2001 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 1 May 2001 → 5 May 2001 http://www10.org

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title = "Which search engine is best at finding online services?",

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