Professional Documents
Culture Documents
“User-Oriented Evaluation
Methods for Interactive
Web Search Interfaces”
DIRECTORIES
Directories are staffed by human editors who consider every
new website submitted and, if they decide it is acceptable,
assign it to the appropriate category (YAHOO).
WEB CRAWLER
1. Web crawling
2. Indexing
3. Searching
1. WEB
CRAWLING
It is the process of scanning web sites to add new pages
and to update existing one.
For example, that the "M" section of the dictionary is much thicker
than the "X" section
Lycos indexes the title, headings, subheadings and the hyperlinks to
other sites, along with the first 20 lines of text and the 100 words that
occur most often
AltaVista claims to index all words, even the articles, "a," "an," and "the."
3. SEARCHING
METHODS OF TEXT
SEARCHING
KEYWORD SEARCHING
Most search engines do their text query and retrieval
using keywords.
search engines have trouble with so-called stemming.
Term Frequency
Locations of Terms
Link Analysis
Popularity
Date of Publication
Proximity of Query Terms
META SEARCH ENGINE
A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user
requests to several other search engines and/or databases
and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them
according to their source.
E.g.; DOGPILE
Examples of different Search Engine
www.howstuffworks.com
www.scribd.com
www.searchenginewatch.com
www.informationplease.com