Fundamentals of Quality on the Web
Bas van Gils, Henderik Alex Proper · 2006
We use information from the Web for performing our daily tasks more and more often. Locating the right resources that help us in doing so is a daunting task, especially with the present rate of growth of the Web as well as the many different kinds of resources available. The tasks of search engines is to assist us in finding those resources that are apt for our given tasks; search engines assess the quality of resources for players. In this paper we present a formal model for the notion of quality on the Web. We base our model on a thorough literature study of how the quality notion is used in different fields. Even more, we show how the quality of resources is affected by software manipulations (transformations).