With the development of the Web, an information “Big Bang” has taken place on the Internet. The continued rapid growth in information volume makes it increasingly difficult to find, organize, access and maintain the information required by users. Today, when we use a web search engine, the search engine can’t tell if the web page is actually relevant for our search. This research paper critical...

A meta search engine acts as an agent for the par ticipant search engines It receives queries from users and redirects them to one or more of the participant search engines for processing A meta search engine incorporating many participant search engines is bet ter than a single global search engine in terms of the number of pages indexed and the freshness of the in dexes The meta search engine...

A metasearch engine supports unified access to multiple component search engines. To build a very large-scale metasearch engine that can access up to hundreds of thousands of component search engines, one major challenge is to incorporate large numbers of autonomous search engines in a highly effective manner. To solve this problem, we propose automatic search engine discovery, automatic search...

With the proliferation of social media, consumers' cognitive costs during information-seeking can become non-trivial during an online shopping session. We propose a dynamic structural model of limited consumer search thatcombines an optimal stopping framework with an individual-level choice model. We estimate the parameters of the model using a dataset of approximately 1 million online search s...

Search engines have become an important channel for destination marketing organizations (DMOs) to communicate and promote their products. This study examine the visibility of the websites of the 50 US state tourism offices. Specifically, website visibility is measured by their rankings among other search results in Google based upon a number of most frequently used queries. By comparing website...

There are many algorithms for optimizing the search engine results, ranking takes place according to one or more parameters such as; Backward Links, Forward Links, Content, click through rate and etc. The quality and performance of these algorithms depend on the listed parameters. The ranking is one of the most important components of the search engine that represents the degree of the vitality...

Given the growing importance of search in online travel planning, marketers need to better understand the behavioural aspect of search engines use. Built upon a number of previous studies, the goal of this research is to identify patterns in online travel queries across tourist destinations. Utilizing transaction log files from a number of search engines, the analysis shows important patterns i...