We present an experiment that compares how people perform search tasks in a degree-of-interest browser and in a Windows-Explorer-like browser. Our results show that, whereas users...
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...
The traditional crawlers used by search engines to build their collection of Web pages frequently gather unmodified pages that already exist in their collection. This creates unne...
Abstract-The information era has brought with it the wellknown problem of 'Information Explosion'. There are many and varied search engines on the Internet but it is stil...
Purpose: To provide a critical review of Bergman’s 2001 study on the Deep Web. In addition, we bring a new concept into the discussion, the Academic Invisible Web (AIW). We defi...