DocumentCode :
1463605
Title :
Searching the Web: general and scientific information access
Author :
Lawrence, Steve ; Giles, C. Lee
Author_Institution :
NEC Res. Inst., Princeton, NJ, USA
Volume :
37
Issue :
1
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
116
Lastpage :
122
Abstract :
The World Wide Web has revolutionized the way 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 showing 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
Keywords :
Internet; citation analysis; digital libraries; indexing; information resources; information retrieval; search engines; Web searching; World Wide Web; autonomous citation indexing; commerce; digital libraries; education; entertainment; government; health care; index; information dissemination; information retrieval; metasearch; relevance ranking; scientific information access; search engines; Business; Government; Information retrieval; Medical services; Metasearch; Organizing; Search engines; Software libraries; Web search; Web sites;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Communications Magazine, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0163-6804
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/35.739314
Filename :
739314
Link To Document :
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