Title
Survey and evaluation of web search engine hit counts as research tools in computational linguistics.
Abstract
•We conduct an exhaustive and up-to-date survey of web search engines.•We evaluate the hit counts provided by web search engines from a research perspective.•We assess the accuracy, mathematical coherence and temporal consistency of hit counts.•We identify the web search engines whose hit counts are best suited for research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.is.2017.12.007
Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web search engines,Hit counts,Computational linguistics,Information distribution,Semantic similarity
Web search engine,Query language,Search engine,End user,Information retrieval,Computer science,Computational linguistics,Compiler,Information extraction,Database,Knowledge acquisition
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
73
0306-4379
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
43
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Sánchez169033.01
Laura Martínez-Sanahuja240.49
Montserrat Batet389937.20