Purpose – The purpose of this paper to investigate the effectiveness of selected search features in the major English and Chinese search engines and compare the search engines’ retrieval effectiveness. Design/approach/methodology – The search engines Google, Google China, and Baidu were...

Investigates image search engines (ISEs) on the Internet. A total of 23 ISEs were examined in an attempt to investigate, evaluate, and characterise their common features. Each individual ISE was evaluated against the common features. Attempts to summarise the most comprehensive and complete ISE...

This paper describes an investigation of 20 different meta‐search engines. Their features were characterised and classified into six distinct categories based on their functionality and use. The most used features and unique features were specified and explained in detail. The findings of this...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co‐occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web publishers/authors to organize their web pages and search engines to index the web pages accurately....

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the multiple language support features in internet search engines. The diversity of the internet is reflected not only in its users, information formats and information content, but also in the languages used. As more and more information becomes...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate obesity‐related queries from a public health portal (HealthLink) transaction log. Design/methodology/approach – Multidimensional scaling (MDS) was applied to each of five obesity‐related focus keywords and their co‐occurring terms...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find a representative subset from large-scale online reviews for consumers. The subset is significantly small in size, but covers the majority amount of information in the original reviews and contains little redundant information....

Purpose – Quantitative methods, especially statistical methods, play an increasingly important role in research of library and information science (LIS). For different journals, the uses of statistical methods vary substantially due to different journal scopes and aims. The purpose of this...