Purpose — To provide an overview of recent research that examined how search engine users evaluate and select Web search results and how alternative search engine interfaces can support Web users' credibility assessment of Web search results. Design/methodology/approach — As theoretical...

Purpose — Ranking is a natural task for a search engine; a search engine result page is the most common example. This chapter aims at illustrating the motivations and the concepts of rank correlation in a practical way for the researchers active in the different domains of search engines....

Purpose — The overall quality of an information retrieval system depends on many different aspects of the system and its users' information seeking behaviour, such as the speed of the system, the user interface, the query language and the features provided by the engine. One of the most...

Purpose — This chapter illustrates and explains the ambiguity and vagueness of the term social search and aims at describing and classifying the heterogeneous landscape of social search implementations on the WWW. Methodology/approach — We have looked at different definitions as well as the...

Purpose — The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of the context of Web search and search engine related research, as well as to introduce the reader to the sections and chapters of the book. Methodology/approach — We review literature dealing with various aspects of search...