Automatically Detecting Boolean Operations Supported by Search Engines, Towards Search Engine Query Language Discovery.
Zonghuan Wu, Dheerendranath Mundluru, Vijay V. Raghavan · 2004
Each Web search engine provides query language through which it can communicate with its users and retrieve corresponding results to user queries. Supporting Boolean operations is a major characteristic of the query language. In this paper, we propose a novel, fully automatic, query probing based approach to identify what Boolean operations that are supported by a search engines and their corresponding syntaxes. Experiments show high effectiveness and efficiency. Along with this, we also provide a Web application called SE-BOSS (Search Engine Boolean Operation Scanning System) for interested users.