Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor?

This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search engines, AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Excite, Lycos, and WebCrawler. The effectiveness of four elements, including title, creator, subject and contributor, that concent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mehdi Safari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Webology Center 2005-08-01
Series:Webology
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Online Access:http://www.webology.org/2005/v2n2/a13.html