Query selection for improved Greek web searches
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
How do Greeks search the web?: a query log analysis study.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
Measuring search engine quality in image queries in 10 non-English languages: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
Current research issues and trends in non-English Web searching
Information Retrieval
Non-english web search: an evaluation of indexing and searching the Greek web
Information Retrieval
SBotMiner: large scale search bot detection
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Searching the searchers with searchaudit
USENIX Security'10 Proceedings of the 19th USENIX conference on Security
Evaluating Google queries based on language preferences
Journal of Information Science
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Over 20 billion Web pages from around the world have been indexed by search engines [10]. This study investigates how search engines respond to non-English queries and more specifically to Greek language queries. To address this we conducted an evaluation using Greek queries in ten search engines: five "global" (A9, AltaVista, Google, MSN Search, and Yahoo!) and five Greek (Anazitisi, Ano-Kato, Phantis. Trinity, and Visto). A set of navigational queries for known Greek organizations was created. The organizations correspond to ten categories: government departments, universities, colleges, travel agencies, museums, media (TV, radio, newspapers), transportation, and banks. Searches were performed using the Greek and its corresponding English, Latin, or transliterated name of each organization. The ideal retrieval would be to get the website of that organization ranked first in the result set. The results of this evaluation are presented in this paper, together with a report on how the engines respond to Greek and Anglicized queries, and on the best performing global and Greek search engines.