Information Retrieval in the World-Wide Web: Making Client-based searching feasible (0)
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@MISC{Bra_informationretrieval,
author = {P.M.E. De Bra and R.D.J. Post and Searching Feasible},
title = {Information Retrieval in the World-Wide Web: Making Client-based searching feasible},
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Abstract
Finding specific information in the World-Wide Web (WWW, or Web for short) is becoming increasingly difficult, because of the rapid growth of the Web and because of the diversity of the information offered through the Web. Hypertext in general is ill-suited for information retrieval as it is designed for stepwise exploration. To help readers find specific information quickly, specific overview documents are often included into the hypertext. Hypertext systems often provide simple searching tools such as full text search or title search, that mostly ignore the 'hyper-structure' formed by the links. In the WWW, finding information is further complicated by its distributed nature. Navigation, often via overview documents, still is the predominant method of finding one's way around the Web. Several searching tools have been developed, basically in two types: A gateway, offering (limited) search operations on small or large parts of the WWW, using a pre-compiled database. The database is of...
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