Why is web search so hard... to evaluate
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: Web search has several important characteristics that distinguish it from traditional information retrieval: the often adversarial relationship between content creators and search engine designers, the nature of the corpus, and the multiplicity of user goals. In addition to making the search task itself difficult, these characteristics make it particularly hard to evaluate search effectiveness. In this paper, we examine these characteristics and then consider the problems with several different standard evaluation techniques.
Source: Journal of Web Engineering
Author: Daniel E. Rose
Institution: Yahoo (United States)
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1516630301