Development of an instrument measuring user satisfaction of the human-computer interface
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scalable Internet resource discovery: research problems and approaches
Communications of the ACM
Internet agents: spiders, wanderers, brokers, and bots
Internet agents: spiders, wanderers, brokers, and bots
Inquirus, the NECI meta search engine
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Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Greenstone: a comprehensive open-source digital library software system
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
The measurement of user information satisfaction
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Greenstone: Open-source DL software
Communications of the ACM
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
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Java Internationalization
CI Spider: a tool for competitive intelligence on the web
Decision Support Systems
Complementing search engines with online web mining agents
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web data mining
HelpfulMed: intelligent searching for medical information over the internet
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Greenstone digital library software: current research
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
SpidersRUs: automated development of vertical search engines in different domains and languages
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Learning to crawl: Comparing classification schemes
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A retrospective look at Greenstone: lessons from the first decade
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
SpidersRUs: Creating specialized search engines in multiple languages
Decision Support Systems
An investigation into a personalised and web2.0-based search engine interface
UAHCI'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: design for all and eInclusion - Volume Part I
Understanding of website usability: Specifying and measuring constructs and their relationships
Decision Support Systems
Concept comparison engines: A new frontier of search
Decision Support Systems
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Search engine development tools have been made to allow users to build their own search engines. However, most of these tools have been designed for advanced computer users. Users without a full understanding of topics such as Web spidering would find these tools difficult to use due to different issues in terms of user interface, performance, and reliability. In view of these issues, we presented a tool called SpidersRUs to strike a balance between usability and functionality. On one hand, beginners should be able to operate the tool by using the basic functions needed to build a search engine. On the other, advanced users should be given the options to exert a higher level of customization while working on the tool. To study the interface design of SpidersRUs, we compared its usability and functionality from the users' perspective with two other development tools, namely Alkaline and Greenstone, in an evaluation study. Our study showed that SpidersRUs was preferred over the other two, particularly in areas of screen layout and sequence, terminology and system information, and learning to use the system.