Lewandowski, Dirk - In: Aslib Proceedings 63 (2011) 4, pp. 354-363
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test major web search engines on their performance on navigational queries, i.e. searches for homepages. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 100 user queries are posed to six search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, Seekport, and Exalead). Users...