Raising Reliability of Web Search Tool Research through Replication and Chaos Theory

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Because the World Wide Web is a dynamic collection of information, the Web search tools (or "search engines") that index the Web are dynamic. Traditional information retrieval evaluation techniques may not provide reliable results when applied to the Web search tools. This study is the result of ten replications of the classic 1996 Ding and Marchionini Web search tool research. It explores the effects that replication can have on transforming unreliable results from one iteration into replicable and therefore reliable results after multiple iterations.

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1. Raising Reliability of Web Search Tool Research through Replication and Chaos Theory 2000, 51(8):724-729 Journal of the American Society for Information Science
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106017
3. Journal of the American Society for Information Science

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/106017
Date	January 2000
Creators	Nicholson, Scott
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Journal Article (Paginated)