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Frequency of occurrence of numbers in the World Wide Web

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

In July of 2005 S.N. Dorogovtseva, J.F.F. Mendesa and J.G. Oliveira published the results of an experiment in which they put every number from 0 to 100 000 into Google, noted the number of results obtained. The paper states this research was (amazingly to Sci7) partially supported by grant money. Citation: Physica A 360 (2006) […]

Multitasking during Web search sessions

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

This is Sci7 Ltd’s review of an article by Amanda Spink, Minsoo Park, Bernard J. Jansen and Jan Pedersen published in volume 42 of the journal “Information Processing and Management” (pages 264–275) with an expected publication date of early 2006.
Data from Altavista
The research discussed is based on analysis of users of the Altavista search […]

Sci7 on The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Sci7’s website optimisation services are informed by a scientific approach, which includes an awareness of both current and historical trends.
Google
Google’s emergence into the search engine scene was an important occurance in the history of search on the web. The founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page wrote a paper describing the first incarnation of […]

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