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Study: For best results, stick to one search engine
June 2nd, 2003
Web users who stick to one or two search engines and learn those well will have better results for their queries than users who try the same query or various engines, a Penn State researcher says. "There are no wholesale rules about structuring a query that will work on multiple search engines," said Bernard J. Jansen, assistant professor of information sciences and technology (IST). "And what works on one engine, such as narrowing a query, can have the opposite effect on other search engines." The research was detailed in the paper, "The effects of search engines and query operators on top ranked results," presented recently at IEEE's International...
Source: Science Letter (2003-06-02)
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