Location-Based Search Engines Tasks and Capabilities: A Comparative Study
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چکیده
Locationbased web searching is one of the popular tasks expected from the search engines. A locationbased query consists of a topic and a reference location. Unlike general web search, in locationbased search it is expected to find and rank documents which are not only related to the query topic but also geographically related to the location which the query is associated with. There are several issues for developing effective geographic search engines and so far, no global locationbased search engine has been reported. Location ambiguity, lack of geographic information on web pages, languagebased and countrydependent addressing styles, and multiple locations related to a single web resource are notable difficulties. Search engine companies have started to develop and offer locationbased services. However, they are still geographically limited and have not become as successful and popular as general search engines. This paper reviews the architecture and tasks of locationbased search engines and compares the capabilities, functionalities and coverage of the current geographic search engines with a useroriented approach.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Webology
دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007