COVERAGE AND INDEPENDENCE - Defining Quality in Web Search Results

Panagiotis Metaxas, Lilia Ivanova

2008

Abstract

Web search results enjoy an increasingly greater importance in our daily lives. But what can be said about their quality, especially when querying a controversial issue? The traditional information retrieval metrics of precision and recall do not provide much insight in the case of the web. In this paper we examine new ways of evaluating quality in search results: coverage and independence. We give examples on how these new metrics can be calculated and what their values reveal regarding the two major search engines, Google and Yahoo.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Metaxas P. and Ivanova L. (2008). COVERAGE AND INDEPENDENCE - Defining Quality in Web Search Results . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 106-113. DOI: 10.5220/0001529201060113

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Panagiotis Metaxas and Lilia Ivanova},
title={COVERAGE AND INDEPENDENCE - Defining Quality in Web Search Results},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={106-113},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001529201060113},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - COVERAGE AND INDEPENDENCE - Defining Quality in Web Search Results
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Metaxas P.
AU - Ivanova L.
PY - 2008
SP - 106
EP - 113
DO - 10.5220/0001529201060113