Chakravarty, Rupak; Randhawa, Sukhwinder(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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Abstract:
Search engines are about excitement, optimism, hope and enrichment. Search engines
are also about despair and disappointment. A researcher while using search engines
for resource discovery might have experienced one or the other sentiments. One may
say that user satisfaction depends much upon the search strategies deployed by the
user. But at the same time its also depends upon the quality of search engine used for
information retrieval. Today, there are many search engines used for resource discovery.
They display the results of the searches made in readily-comprehensible manner
with lots of customization possibilities including refining and sorting. This paper is an
attempt to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the three most used and popular
search engines for academic resource discovery: Google Scholar, Scirus and Windows
Live Academic.