Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ635567
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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Assessing Bias in Search Engines.
Mowshowitz, Abbe; Kawaguchi, Akira
Information Processing & Management, v38 n1 p141-56 Jan 2002
Addresses the measurement of bias in search engines on the Web, defining bias as the balance and representation of items in a collection retrieved from a database for a set of queries. Assesses bias by measuring the deviation from the ideal of the distribution produced by a particular search engine. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Bias, Databases, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Measurement Techniques, World Wide Web
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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