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Thelwall, Mike – Internet Research, 2000
Reports on a survey of 60,087 commercial worldwide Web sites that investigated their design and rate of search engine registration. Discusses the need to register sites with search engines to make them more accessible to potential customers and recommends the use of HTML META tags for proper indexing. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexing, Surveys, World Wide Web
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Savoy, Jacques; Picard, Justin – Information Processing & Management, 2001
Discusses the role of search engines in Web usability and analyzes and evaluates the retrieval effectiveness of various indexing and searching strategies on a new Web text collection. Highlights include preprocessing techniques that might improve retrieval effectiveness; and hyperlinks as useful sources of evidence in improving retrieval…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies
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Thelwall, Mike – Journal of Documentation, 2001
Discusses Web impact factors (WIFs), Web versions of the impact factors for journals, and how they can be calculated by using search engines. Highlights include HTML and document indexing; Web page links; a Web crawler designed for calculating WIFs; and WIFs for United Kingdom universities that measured research profiles or capability. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Indexing, Scholarly Journals, Universities
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Greenhill, Stewart; Venkatesh, Svetha – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Describes WebClass, a system that allows Web users to create personalized conceptual data that is dynamically merged with original HTML source by a proxy server. Explains the creation of alternative views of Web pages, data modeling, and navigation; and describes two possible applications of the system, annotation and indexing. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Indexing, Navigation (Information Systems), Users (Information)
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Thelwall, Mike – Internet Research, 2002
Describes Web survey methodologies used to study the content of the Web, and discusses search engines and the concept of crawling the Web. Highlights include Web page selection methodologies; obstacles to reliable automatic indexing of Web sites; publicly indexable pages; crawling parameters; and tests for file duplication. (Contains 62…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Indexing, Measurement Techniques, Search Engines
Ma, Yan; Diodato, Virgil – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Compares the indexing structure of icons with principles used for traditional indexing. A sample of 15 library homepages was drawn from the total population of the United States library homepages. Semiotics theory was used to study the icons. Analysis and results are outlined. (AEF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Indexes, Indexing, Knowledge Representation
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O'Kane, Kevin C. – Online & CD-ROM Review, 1996
Describes the design and implementation of a system for computer generation of linked HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents to support information retrieval and hypertext applications on the World Wide Web by adding an interactive indexing technique that is compatible with Web browsers. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Hypermedia, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Beke-Harrigan, Heidi – 1999
The Quaker Resources Online Index is a World Wide Web-based index, including author, title, subject, and meeting indexes, that provides access to Quaker materials available on the Web. Given the current failings and shortcomings of search engines and automated key word searches, this index brings together information from a variety of sources and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Palmquist, Ruth A. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996
Examines Internet metaphors in the titles of 100 articles published in 1995 and found in three indexing services. Analyzes criteria for assessing the usefulness of metaphors to determine the more appropriate metaphors that might successfully convey to the novice user the purposes and activities possible with the hyperlinked elements and functions…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Indexing, Internet, Journal Articles
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Nicholson, Scott – Information Technology and Libraries, 1997
Discussion of Web databases, or search engines for the Internet, presents a series of questions that can be used to analyze these tools based on library literature. Six search engines are analyzed; collection methods, indexing, and abstracting are compared; and a proposal for a future ideal Web database is included. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Abstracting, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Evaluation Methods
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Chen, Hsinchun; Lally, Ann M.; Zhu, Bin; Chau, Michael – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discussion of the information needs of medical professionals and researchers focuses on the architecture of a Web portal designed to integrate advanced searching and indexing algorithms, an automatic thesaurus, and self-organizing map technologies to provide searchers with fine-grained results. Reports results of evaluation of spider algorithms…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Needs
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Baeza-Yates, Ricardo; Navarro, Gonzalo – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
Discusses indexing in large text databases, approximate text searching, and space-time tradeoffs for indexed text searching. Studies the space overhead and retrieval times as functions of the text block size, concludes that an index can be sublinear in space overhead and query time, and applies the analysis to the Web. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Databases, Indexes, Indexing, Information Retrieval
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Ellis, David; Ford, Nigel; Furner, Jonathan – Journal of Documentation, 1998
Indexing is the preprocessing of information to enable its retrieval, ranging from classification-based (precoordinate) to keyword searching (postcoordinate) approaches. This article describes a framework for modelling information retrieval systems in terms of sets of objects, relationships, and functions and discusses the application of indexing…
Descriptors: Classification, Databases, Hypermedia, Indexing
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Jacso, Peter – Online Information Review, 2001
Describes indexes to Web resources that have been created by librarians to be more discriminating than the usual Web search engines, some of which are organized by standard classification systems. Includes indexes by solo librarians as well as by groups of librarians, some in public libraries and some in higher education. (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Indexing, Librarians
Wheeler, William J., Ed. – 2000
This book contains the following papers in honor of Pauline Atherton Cochrane on subject access issues in library and information science: (1) "Obstacles in Progress in Mechanized Subject Access and the Necessity of a Paradigm Change" (Robert Fugmann); (2) "On MARC and the Nature of Text Searching: A Review of Pauline Cochrane's…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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