With the rapid increase of websites and internet users, the traditional search engine will face great challenge in the real-time search, response speed and the storage of mass pages. However, the search engine deployed in the cloud can solve these shortcomings due to cloud computing with two major advantages in mass data processing and mass data storage. By analyzing the open-source cloud compu...

In this study we examined how authority-related epistemological beliefs (AREBs) affect the evaluation of web search results presented by a search engine. Moreover, we investigated whether increasing the salience of source information on a search engine result page fosters students’ evaluation processes, and whether the salience of source information moderates the effects of AREBs. Thirty univer...

Resource discovery in a distributed digital library poses many challenges, one of which is how to choose search engines for query distribution, given a query and a set of search engines. This paper focuses on search engine performance as a criterion for search engine selection and defines two measurements of search engine performance: availability – will the search engine respond within a time ...

The web has been evolving towards its Semantic future and, in turn, search engines (SEs) have been evolving to incorporate these changes. Current work probes on search engine ranking factors in a Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 context. To this end, we have created a headless crawler, LSHrank, which employs known search engine APIs, evaluates the results and explores the factors that affect the search engi...

There is no doubt that Search Engines are playing a great role in Internet usage. But all the top search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing are having a critical flaw called “Openness of a Search Engine”. An Internet user should be allowed to get the search results only when requested through Search engine’s web page but the user must not be allowed to get the search results when requested through ...

There is an ongoing public policy debate regarding the role search engines can play in anti-piracy efforts. However, for any sensible policy discussion it must first be the case that changes in search results can influence consumers’ decisions to pirate or purchase legally. Surprisingly, there is little empirical evidence on this important policy issue. To analyze this question, we design a cus...

Web sites invest significant resources in trying to influence their visibility among online search results. In addition to paying for sponsored links, they invest in methods known as search engine optimization (SEO) that improve the ranking of a site among the search results without improving its quality. We study the economic incentives of Web sites to invest in SEO and its implications on sea...