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Comparative Study of Web Search Engines and User-centric Search Engine


     

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Searches of the entire World Wide Web using search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask have become an extremely common way of locating information. Search engines are providing great facilities to the Internet users to search intended information from hundreds of millions of Web pages within a part of second. Today search engines are become more powerful and efficient by using various algorithms and technologies to provide a best result which demanded by user. Search engines now provide various added services too. One more area where search engine can also improve by keeping the track of user activity and history of visited sites which help user to carry their previous visited sites among different Web browsers, now a day it is done by Web browser only. This paper presents critical comparison of various popular search engines based on added features. A detailed analysis is presented and results are provided.

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Search Engine Evaluation, Search Engine Statistics, Feature Comparison, Search Engine Evaluation, World Wide Web
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Searches of the entire World Wide Web using search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask have become an extremely common way of locating information. Search engines are providing great facilities to the Internet users to search intended information from hundreds of millions of Web pages within a part of second. Today search engines are become more powerful and efficient by using various algorithms and technologies to provide a best result which demanded by user. Search engines now provide various added services too. One more area where search engine can also improve by keeping the track of user activity and history of visited sites which help user to carry their previous visited sites among different Web browsers, now a day it is done by Web browser only. This paper presents critical comparison of various popular search engines based on added features. A detailed analysis is presented and results are provided.

Keywords


Search Engine Evaluation, Search Engine Statistics, Feature Comparison, Search Engine Evaluation, World Wide Web

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