The Missing Pieces tool visualizes the overlap of search engine results including those generated by the metasearch engine, Dogpile. The major research question is: how well can users interact with and interpret the circular metasearch results display? This study has interesting implications for the use of visualization for presenting information in a web metasearch environment. Résumé : L’outi...

This paper provides preliminary results from a major study of multimedia Web searching by Dogpile meta-search engine users, including queries and session characteristics, and changes or differences in image, video and audio searching. The results are compared with multimedia Web searching studies from 1997 to 2002. Image and sexual queries are dominant in multimedia Web searching. The paper pro...

Compares the searching capabilities of two search engines (Google and Yahoo) and two metasearch engines (Metacrawler and Dogpile) on the basis of the precision value and relative recall. Fifteen queries which represented a broad range of library and information science topics were selected and each query was submitted to the search engines and metasearch engines. The first 100 results in each s...

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...

2 ABSTRACT Searching for multimedia is an important activity for users of Web search engines. Studying user's interactions with Web search engine multimedia buttons, including image, audio, and video, is important for the development of multimedia Web search systems. This paper provides results from a Weblog analysis study of multimedia Web searching by Dogpile users in 2006. The study analyzes...

The Internet has made finding evidence for clinical practice fairly easy. Many different types of databases that can be searched for relevant key terms are available for free or for subscription. Bibliographic or library databases contain books, book chapters, reports, citations, abstracts, and either the full text of the articles indexed or links to the full text. Citation databases are specia...

Yahoo!Clusty1 is a Clustering Meta-search Engine (MSE) that allows users to send queries to Yahoo!. The returned snippets are grouped into homogeneous groups by topic. The objective of this project has been to create a flexible MSE for the Yahoo! web search engine. The purpose is to present the results returned to a query in a more structured format which will allow the user to easily explore t...