Title
On the Precision of Search Engines: Results from a Controlled Experiment.
Abstract
Handling the growing amount of digital information is one of the major challenges when dealing with the World Wide Web (WWW). In particular, users crave for an effective and efficient retrieval of needed information. In this context, search engines adopt a key role. Besides conventional search engines such as Google, semantic search engines have emerged as an alternative approach in recent years. The quality of search results delivered by search engines is influenced by many criteria. This paper picks up one specific issue, the precision, and investigates and compares the precision of current both conventional (i. e., non-semantic) and semantic search engines based on a controlled experiment with 77 participants. Specifically, Google, AltaVista, MetaGer, Hakia, Kngine, and WolframAlpha are investigated and compared.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
conventional vs. semantic search engines,experiment
Field
DocType
Volume
World Wide Web,Search engine,Query expansion,Information retrieval,Semantic search,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Controlled experiment,Search analytics
Conference
117
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-1348
3
0.37
References 
Authors
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hasan Girit170.81
Robert Eberhard230.37
Bernd Michelberger3645.90
Bela Mutschler419817.97