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Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.

This paper reports the results of a study conducted to explore and compare the features of independently built Malaysian Web search engines, as well as evaluate their performance and search capabilities. Four Malaysian independently built search engines were chosen for the study and Google served as...

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Main Authors: Halim, H., Kaur, K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
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T Technology (General)
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/631/1/web_search_engines_kiran.pdf
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spelling my.um.eprints.6312011-08-11T04:53:56Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/631/ Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis. Halim, H. Kaur, K. T Technology (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources This paper reports the results of a study conducted to explore and compare the features of independently built Malaysian Web search engines, as well as evaluate their performance and search capabilities. Four Malaysian independently built search engines were chosen for the study and Google served as the benchmark engine. This study applied two co-related methodologies, namely Information Retrieval Evaluation Methodology and common features comparison. The Information Retrieval Evaluation Methodology measures include search capabilities, retrieval performance (recall & precision) and user effort. Results show that each search engine portrays different strengths and weaknesses. Malaysia Directory appears to be the best Malaysian Web search engine in term of feature presentation but fails in term of retrieval performance; whereas Malaysia Central managed to score the highest for mean precision but failed to excel in terms of feature presentation. SajaSearch outperformed Cari in most related documents, even though Cari did return the highest total hits. Overall comparison with Google leaves Malaysian search engines with much to improve on in terms of performance and search capabilities. Implications for the design of Malaysian Web Search Engines are also discussed. 2006 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.um.edu.my/631/1/web_search_engines_kiran.pdf Halim, H. and Kaur, K. (2006) Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 11 (1). pp. 103-122. (Unpublished)
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topic T Technology (General)
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
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Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources
Halim, H.
Kaur, K.
Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
description This paper reports the results of a study conducted to explore and compare the features of independently built Malaysian Web search engines, as well as evaluate their performance and search capabilities. Four Malaysian independently built search engines were chosen for the study and Google served as the benchmark engine. This study applied two co-related methodologies, namely Information Retrieval Evaluation Methodology and common features comparison. The Information Retrieval Evaluation Methodology measures include search capabilities, retrieval performance (recall & precision) and user effort. Results show that each search engine portrays different strengths and weaknesses. Malaysia Directory appears to be the best Malaysian Web search engine in term of feature presentation but fails in term of retrieval performance; whereas Malaysia Central managed to score the highest for mean precision but failed to excel in terms of feature presentation. SajaSearch outperformed Cari in most related documents, even though Cari did return the highest total hits. Overall comparison with Google leaves Malaysian search engines with much to improve on in terms of performance and search capabilities. Implications for the design of Malaysian Web Search Engines are also discussed.
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author Halim, H.
Kaur, K.
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Kaur, K.
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title Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
title_short Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
title_full Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
title_fullStr Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
title_full_unstemmed Malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
title_sort malaysian web search engines: a critical analysis.
publishDate 2006
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/631/1/web_search_engines_kiran.pdf
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