Usability Evaluation Of Web Search Engines Using Navigational Query Model Examples From Library And Information Services
i-manager s Journal on Information Technology · 2019
Web search engines are important information retrieval tools, they are in fact the most widely used retrieval tools in the world today as compared to the traditional library catalogues, indexes, and abstracts. They range from general to subject-specific, and are pervasive in nature and use. A web search engine is a web-based information retrieval tool designed to search for information in various formats on the World Wide Web (WWW) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers. The search outputs are usually displayed in a list of results and are often called hits, the format of the output information may consist of web pages, images, videos, links, and other types of file formats. Some web search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained by human editors, web search engines operate automatically under the control of some set of algorithms or may be a mixture USABILITY EVALUATION