The World Wide Web has become the largest hypertext system in existence, providing an extremely rich collection of information resources. Compared with conventional information so...
The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...
Recent studies show that a majority of Web page accesses are referred by search engines. In this paper we study the widespread use of Web search engines and its impact on the ecol...
This study introduces methods for evaluating search engine performance over a time period. Several measures are defined, which as a whole, describe search engine functionality ove...
The placement of Websites in ranked retrieval and the viewing patterns of Web search engine users is a crucial issue for Web site owners and Web search engines. However, little la...