Estimating search engine index size variability: a 9-year longitudinal study

One of the determining factors of the quality of Web search engines is the size of their index. In addition to its influence on search result quality, the size of the indexed Web can also tell us something about which parts of the WWW are directly accessible to the everyday user. We propose a novel...

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Main Authors: van den Bosch, Antal, Bogers, Toine, de Kunder, Maurice
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833824/