Evaluation and comparison of search engines

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A growing body of studies is developing approaches to evaluate human interactionwith Web search engines. Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of WorldWide Web search engines is costly because of the human relevance judgementsinvolved. However, both for business enterprises and people it is important to knowthe most effective Web search engine, since such search engines help their users finda higher number of relevant Web pages with less effort. Furthermore, this informationcan be used for several practical purposes. This study does not attempt to describe allthe currently available search engines, but provides a comparison of some, which aredeemed to be among the most useful. It concentrates on search engines and theircharacteristics only. The goal is to help a new user get the most useful hits whenusing the various tools.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University