NDLI: Instability in Search Engine Results: Lessons Learned in the Context of Horizon Scanning Applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Palomino, M.A. Taylor, T. McBride, G. Owen, R.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Med. Sch., ECEHH, Univ. of Exeter, Truro, UK (Palomino, M.A.; Taylor, T.) \|\| STFC Futures Programme, Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK (McBride, G.) \|\| Bus. Sch., Univ. of Exeter, Truro, UK (Owen, R.)
Abstract	Horizon scanning, the systematic search for information to identify potential threats, risks, emerging issues and opportunities, has become an increasingly important part of strategic decision making. Although horizon scanning has its roots in the pre-electronic information era, it has blossomed with the availability of Web-based information. Dedicated analysts responsible for scanning the horizon make frequent use of search engines to retrieve information. Regrettably, the results yielded by popular search engines are often inconsistent and redundant. Thus, post processing heuristics have to be employed to select the most relevant data. This paper focusses on the first steps of this process, and analyses the result counts provided by different search engine interfaces in response to a set of queries meant to gather information about new and emerging trends.
Starting Page	53
Ending Page	57
File Size	255667
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550701
ISSN	15294188
e-ISBN	9781479921386
DOI	10.1109/DEXA.2013.14
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-08-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Search engines Google Market research Engines Time series analysis Educational institutions Indexes horizon scanning search engine instability Web mining trend discovery and tracking
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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