PRODUCTIVE INFORMATION SEARCHING: QUERY WISE STUDY OF SEARCH ENGINES EFFECTIVENESS

Authors

  • Dr. P K Tripathy Librarian Regional Inst. Of Edu. (Ncert), Bhopal

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Abstract

Internet is the most potent source of information, side by side it has the most difficult  mechanism/system to retrieve relevant information because of its infinite coverage, innovative information models, complex indexing algorithms and  . As retrieval tools the Search Engines are striving continuously to cover major portion of the Internet and develop strong index of it for satisfying information need of the Internet users, in which some are successful and others are less to them. The present paper is the out put of the research conducted to find out and compare the retrieval effectiveness of different search engines working in India like, Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, Rediff, Khoj, and Guruji. By method of testing of some queries (collected from researchers in the field of Education) on all search engines the researcher has drawn some findings

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Published

2016-09-30

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Vol. 5 No. 10 (2016): SEPTEMBER 2016

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