Further Reading on Search Engines

Ackermann, E. C. and K. Hartman. Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Wilsonville, OR: Franklin Beedle, 1998.

Belew, Richard K. Finding Out About: a Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Berry, Michael W. Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1999.

Brewington, B.-E. and G. Cybenko. "Keeping Up With the Changing Web." Computer 33 (2000): 52-8.

Feldman, Susan E., and E. Liddy. "The Searching Quagmire How a Search Engine Works." Searcher 9 (2001): 66-75.

Glossbrenner, Alfred. Search Engines for the World Wide Web. 2nd Edition. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 1999.

Gould, Cheryl. Searching Smart on the World Wide Web: Tools and Techniques for Getting Quality Results . Internet Workshop Series; No. 8. Berkeley, CA: Library Solutions Press, 1998.

Hock, Randolph. The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: a Handbook for the Serious Searcher. 2nd ed. Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2001.

Introna, L. and H. Nissenbaum. "Defining the Web: the Politics of Search Engines." Computer 33 (2000): 54-62.

Jenkins, Charlotte, M.Jackson, and P.Burden. "Searching the World Wide Web: An Evaluation of Available Tools and Methodologies." Information and Software Technology 39 (1998): 985-94.

Lew, M.S. "Next-Generation Web Searches for Visual Content." Computer 33 (2000): 46-53.

Maze, Susan. Authoritative Guide to Web Search Engines. NY: Neal-Schuman, 1997.

Greg Notess, "Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching.," http://notess.com/search/.

Schwartz, Candy, Sorting Out the Web: Approaches to Subject Access. Westport, CT: Ablex Pub., 2001.

Danny Sullivan, "Search Engine Watch," http://searchenginewatch.com.

Voorhees, Ellen M. "Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Measurement of Retrieval Effectiveness." Information Processing and Management 36 (2000): 697-716.


  N.Fielden
February, 2002
Revised May 2002