Online Information Review: Volume 35 Issue 6

A method to assess search engine results

Judit Bar‐Ilan, Mark Levene

The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing search results retrieved from different sources.

Comparative evaluation of web search engines in health information retrieval

Carla Teixeira Lopes, Cristina Ribeiro

The intent of this work is to evaluate several generalist and health‐specific search engines for retrieval of health information by consumers: to compare the retrieval…

Topic‐sensitive search engine evaluation

Na Dai, Brian D. Davison

This work aims to investigate the sensitivity of ranking performance with respect to the topic distribution of queries selected for ranking evaluation.

Discovering geographic web services in search engines

Francisco J. Lopez‐Pellicer, Aneta J. Florczyk, Rubén Béjar, Pedro R. Muro‐Medrano, F. Javier Zarazaga‐Soria

There is an open discussion in the geographic information community about the use of digital libraries or search engines for the discovery of resources. Some researchers suggest…

Comparing Google to a digital reference service for answering factual and topical requests by keyword and question queries

Pertti Vakkari

This paper seeks to evaluate to what extent Google retrieved correct answers to queries inferred from factual and topical requests in a digital Ask‐a‐Librarian service.

Using a Delphi method and the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate Chinese search engines: A case study on Chinese search engines

Qinghua Zhu, Jia Tina Du, Fei Meng, Kewen Wu, Xiaoling Sun

The purpose of this study is to develop an evaluation criteria system for search engines using the Delphi method and the analytic hierarchy process, and to conduct an empirical…

Automatic performance evaluation of web search engines using judgments of metasearch engines

Hamid Sadeghi

The purpose of this paper is to introduce two new automatic methods for evaluating the performance of search engines. The reported study uses the methods to experimentally…

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property

David Mason

Blended Learning across Disciplines: Models for Implementation

Wing Lam

Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity

Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam

Information Retrieval Technology: 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2010. Proceedings

Madely du Preez

Practical Open Source Software for Libraries

Brenda Chawner

The pros and cons of Microsoft Academic Search from a bibliometric perspective

Péter Jacsó

This paper aims to look at the pros and cons of Microsoft Academic Search (MAS) from a bibliometric perspective.

Letter to the Editor

Jiang Li, Mark Sanderson, Peter Willett, Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim, Péter Jacso

Evaluating web search engines

Dirk Lewandowski

Reviews of recent research literature – 2

Maryam Nazari