In environments containing many text search engines a federated search system provides people with a single point of access. When search engines are managed by independent organiz...
In recent years, while search engines have become more and more powerful, several specialized search engines have been developed for different domains (e.g. library services, serv...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
Existing search engines contain the picture of the Web from the past and their ranking algorithms are based on data crawled some time ago. However, a user requires not only relevan...