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30,000 hits may be better than 300: Precision anomalies in Internet searches

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  • Caroline M. Eastman

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Results of searches using a variety of query formulations with several Internet search engines show that strategies intended to give narrower and more precise results may not give improvements in precision even though they result in fewer hits. Searches were performed by students in graduate information retrieval courses using different formulations for the same topic.

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  • Caroline M. Eastman, 2002. "30,000 hits may be better than 300: Precision anomalies in Internet searches," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 53(11), pages 879-882.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:53:y:2002:i:11:p:879-882
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.10115
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    1. Kar Yan Tam & Shuk Ying Ho, 2005. "Web Personalization as a Persuasion Strategy: An Elaboration Likelihood Model Perspective," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 16(3), pages 271-291, September.

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