Evaluation of Web Search Engines by Undergraduate Students

Louise T. Su; Hsin-Liang Chen

Evaluation of Web Search Engines by Undergraduate Students

Department of Library and Educational Informational Systems

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Abstract

Examines how undergraduate students used four search engines--Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, and Lycos--to retrieve information for their studies or personal interests and how they evaluated the interaction and search results retrieved by the four engines. Measures were based on five evaluation criteria: relevance, efficiency, utility, user satisfaction, and connectivity. (AEF)

Original language	American English
Journal	Proceedings of the62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (1999, Washington, DC)
State	Published - Jan 1 1999

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Library and Information Science

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