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The retrieval effectiveness of search engines on navigational queries
2011
ASLIB Proceedings
Purpose -To test major Web search engines on their performance on navigational queries, i.e. searches for homepages. Design/methodology/approach -100 real user queries are posed to six search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Seekport, and Exalead). Users described the desired pages, and the results position of these is recorded. Measured success N and mean reciprocal rank are calculated. Findings -Performance of the major search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN is best, with around 90 percent of
doi:10.1108/00012531111148949
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