Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines

• Main Author: Teo, Boon Chin.
• Other Authors: Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42638
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

There are many non fee-based search engines for the World Wide Web. The recent introduction of query expansion facility in search engines helps to reduce information overload for the user. This study evaluates the query expansion facility of three search engines, AltaVista™, Excite™ and HotOIL™,...