In this study, we investigate information retrieval (IR) on Turkish texts using a large‐scale
test collection that contains 408,305 documents and 72 ad hoc queries. We examine the …

This paper investigates the semantic search performance of search engines. Initially, three
keyword-based search engines (Google, Yahoo and Msn) and a semantic search engine …

With increasingly higher numbers of non-English language web searchers the problems of
efficient handling of non-English Web documents and user queries are becoming major …

Solar power is an important source of renewable energy for many low-power systems.
Matching the power consumption level with the supply level can make a great difference in …

Unreliable failure detectors have been an important abstraction to build dependable
distributed applications over asynchronous distributed systems subject to faults. Their …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to highlight the retrieval effectiveness of search
engines taking into consideration both precision and relative recall. Design/methodology …

Purpose The purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of Google (as an international
search engine) as well as of Parsijoo, Rismoon, and Yooz (as Persian search engines) …

The absence of diacritics in text documents or search queries is a serious problem for
Turkish information retrieval because it creates homographic ambiguity. Thus, the …

The paper examined the use of Information Retrieval Tools (IRTs) by the post graduate
students of selected universities in south western Nigeria. The study made use of descriptive …

This article investigates the information retrieval performance of popular search engines on
finding Turkish documents. First of all, five popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, Msn, All …