Methods for comparing rankings of search engine results

Judit Bar-Ilan; Mazlita Mat-Hassan; Mark Levene

doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2005.10.020

Methods for comparing rankings of search engine results

Judit Bar-Ilan, Mazlita Mat-Hassan, Mark Levene

Department of Information Science

Birkbeck University of London

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Abstract

In this paper we present a number of measures that compare rankings of search engine results. We apply these measures to five queries that were monitored daily for two periods of 14 or 21 days each. Rankings of the different search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Teoma for text searches and Google, Yahoo! and Picsearch for image searches) are compared on a daily basis, in addition to longitudinal comparisons of the same engine for the same query over time. The results and rankings of the two periods are compared as well.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1448-1463
Number of pages	16
Journal	Computer Networks
Volume	50
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2005.10.020
State	Published - 14 Jul 2006

Keywords

Longitudinal analysis
Ranking
Search engines
Similarity measures

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