A formal approach to evaluate and compare internet search engines: a case study on searching the chinese web

Authors:
Kin F. Li;Yali Wang;Shojiro Nishio;Wei Yu
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria;Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria
Venue:
APWeb'05 Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web Technologies Research and Development
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The Internet has become an indispensable tool for finding information quickly using a search engine. The usefulness of the information retrieved, is open to questions. It depends on the keyword used, the search criteria, the judgement of the user, and also on the effectiveness of the search engine. There are some published works, mostly online, that evaluate Internet search engines. Most of them, however, are either informal, focused on a few aspects, subjectively qualitative, or ad-hoc without a rigorous approach. In this work, we propose a formal mathematical model to evaluate and compare search engines. As a case study, five popular Chinese search engines are examined.