Ali, Mufazil and Loan, Fayaz Ahmad Do Search Engines Display All Search Hits? Library Philosophy and Practice, 2021, vol. 2021. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]
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Purpose: The web is used to gather information through Search tools globally. These search tools display results as HITS (Hyper-Text Induced Theme Search). This study aims to explore how accurate search tools are when search hits are counted and displayed. Methodology: The paper began with search tools and search terms recognition. Academic search tools Google Scholar, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), CORE (Connecting Repositories) were identified. Using the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), the subject areas were selected from the fields of Economics and Political Science. Search terms were selected from the Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH). The searches were conducted in the simple search mode of the search engines. The total number of hits shown by search tools was recorded, and the hits were then manually counted while navigating from one page to the next to identifythe true number of search hits. Findings: The findings reveal that there is a large difference in the number of hits claimed by the BASE, CORE, and Google Scholar and actual hits displayed. However, the actual hits don’t vary significantly between and among search engines.
Item type: | Journal article (Unpaginated) |
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Keywords: | Search Engines, Google Scholar, CORE, BASE, Search Results, Search Hits, Count Estimation |
Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. |
Depositing user: | Dr Fayaz Loan |
Date deposited: | 14 Oct 2023 20:52 |
Last modified: | 14 Oct 2023 20:52 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44940 |
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