Are there economies of scale to data in internet search? This paper is first to use real search engine query logs to empirically investigate how data drives the quality of internet search results. We find evidence that the quality of search results improve with more data on previous searches....

Are there economies of scale to data in internet search? This paper is first to use real search engine query logs to empirically investigate how data drives the quality of internet search results. We find evidence that the quality of search results improve with more data on previous searches....

Introduces several new versions of PageRank (the link based Web page ranking algorithm), based on an information science perspective on the concept of the Web document. Although the Web page is the typical indivisible unit of information in search engine results and most Web information...

Purpose – The purpose of the study was to compare an internet search engine, Google, with appropriate library databases and systems, in order to assess the relative value, strengths and weaknesses of the two sorts of system. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach was used, with...

We study the impact of web search personalization on ideological segregation in search results. We deploy 150 synthetic internet users with randomized partisan preferences across 25 US cities. These users generate authentic browsing histories and are active during the US 2020 election and its...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the performance and efficiency of the five most used search engines, i.e. Google, Yahoo!, Live, Ask, and AOL, in retrieving internet resources at specific points of time using a large number of complex queries. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – Term suggestion is a very useful information retrieval technique that tries to suggest relevant terms for users' queries, to help advertisers find more appropriate terms relevant to their target market. This paper aims to focus on the problem of using several semantic analysis...

Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the problems that exist with Google Scholar, particularly regarding content spam and citation spam. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an analysis of how Google Scholar has been duped by real but manipulated documents...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing search results retrieved from different sources. Design/methodology/approach – This is a two phase method, where in the first stage users select and rank the ten best search results from a randomly ordered set. In the...

Purpose – This work aims to investigate the sensitivity of ranking performance with respect to the topic distribution of queries selected for ranking evaluation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors reweight queries used in two TREC tasks to make them match three real background topic...