ERIC Number: EJ670022
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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GeoSearcher: GeoSpatial Ranking of Search Engine Results.
Watters, Carolyn; Amoudi, Ghada
Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, v39 p409-16 2002
Discusses search engines and describes a prototype system that provides dynamic ranking of search engine results for geospatial queries based on the URL of the host site. Evaluates this approach using user queries and random Web pages, making a contribution to Web retrieval by providing an alternative ranking order for search engine results. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Geography, Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Web Sites, World Wide Web
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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