TY - GEN
T1 - Searching the Web
T2 - 1st IEEE/POPOV Workshop on Internet Technologies and Services, INTS 1999
AU - Lawrence, S.
AU - Giles, C. L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1999 IEEE.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The World Wide Web has revolutionized the way that people access information, and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, general and scientific information dissemination and retrieval, education, commerce, entertainment, government and health care. There are many avenues for improvement of the Web, for example in the areas of locating and organizing information. Current techniques for access to both general and scientific information on the Web provide much room for improvement, search engines do not provide comprehensive indices of the Web and have difficulty in accurately ranking the relevance of results. Scientific information on the Web is very disorganized. We discuss the effectiveness of Web search engines, including results that show that the major Web search engines cover only a fraction of the "publicly indexable Web". Current research into improved searching of the Web is discussed, including new techniques for ranking the relevance of results, and new techniques in metasearch that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Web search. The creation of digital libraries incorporating autonomous citation indexing is discussed for improved access to scientific information on the Web.
AB - The World Wide Web has revolutionized the way that people access information, and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, general and scientific information dissemination and retrieval, education, commerce, entertainment, government and health care. There are many avenues for improvement of the Web, for example in the areas of locating and organizing information. Current techniques for access to both general and scientific information on the Web provide much room for improvement, search engines do not provide comprehensive indices of the Web and have difficulty in accurately ranking the relevance of results. Scientific information on the Web is very disorganized. We discuss the effectiveness of Web search engines, including results that show that the major Web search engines cover only a fraction of the "publicly indexable Web". Current research into improved searching of the Web is discussed, including new techniques for ranking the relevance of results, and new techniques in metasearch that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Web search. The creation of digital libraries incorporating autonomous citation indexing is discussed for improved access to scientific information on the Web.
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U2 - 10.1109/INTS.1999.874002
DO - 10.1109/INTS.1999.874002
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84928779440
T3 - 1st IEEE/POPOV Workshop on Internet Technologies and Services, INTS 1999 - Proceedings
SP - 18
EP - 31
BT - 1st IEEE/POPOV Workshop on Internet Technologies and Services, INTS 1999 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 25 October 1999 through 28 October 1999
ER -