Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.

This dissertation provided an appreciation of whether Internet search engines appropriately provided an adequate number of relevant search engine results to its Internet users which were also free from any untoward legality. An empirical study was conducted to address the following research question...

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Main Author: Lim, Daniel Boon Chye.
Other Authors: Theng, Yin Leng
Format: Thesis
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1850
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description This dissertation provided an appreciation of whether Internet search engines appropriately provided an adequate number of relevant search engine results to its Internet users which were also free from any untoward legality. An empirical study was conducted to address the following research questions: (1) whether Internet search engines have failed to adequately retrieve and rank content-relevant search results despite their claim; (2) whether these search results were free from the effects of search engine spam and other means of tweaking web pages to raise their rankings in the search results; and (3) whether search engines retrieved search results that conveniently pointed users to sources of illegal copies of multimedia content.
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spelling ntu-10356/18502019-12-10T13:18:01Z Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results. Lim, Daniel Boon Chye. Theng, Yin Leng Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis This dissertation provided an appreciation of whether Internet search engines appropriately provided an adequate number of relevant search engine results to its Internet users which were also free from any untoward legality. An empirical study was conducted to address the following research questions: (1) whether Internet search engines have failed to adequately retrieve and rank content-relevant search results despite their claim; (2) whether these search results were free from the effects of search engine spam and other means of tweaking web pages to raise their rankings in the search results; and (3) whether search engines retrieved search results that conveniently pointed users to sources of illegal copies of multimedia content. Master of Science (Information Studies) 2008-09-10T08:36:47Z 2008-09-10T08:36:47Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1850 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
spellingShingle DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
Lim, Daniel Boon Chye.
Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.
title Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.
title_full Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.
title_fullStr Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.
title_full_unstemmed Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.
title_short Search engine failure : finding problems in relevant results.
title_sort search engine failure finding problems in relevant results
topic DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
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