• The Journal of Information Technology and Database
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.27-46
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• 1999

This study was intended to find the use patterns of internet search engines of librarians and to measure the relationship between internet use frequency and the use behavior of internet search engines. The results showed that librarians use Web search engines for academic information retrieval and are satisfied with the search results. The major problems when librarians use search engines were that search engines retrieve many non-relevant documents. As a result of hypotheses test, the relationship between internet frequency and the preference of search engines was not significantly different. On the other hand, the hypotheses that internet frequency affects satisfaction of search results, recognition of importance of search engines, and the need of retraining of librarians for internet information retrieval were shown to be significant.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.412-432
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• 2001

Internet search engines are used by the majority of find information on the Web. However, Web users can be often dissatisfied with the mistakes in the retrieval of ‘Fashion’ information from the Internet. The purpose of this study is to analyze the ‘Fashion’ category structure in the Internet search engines. There are 2 steps for achieving it: the first, to investigate the structures of ‘Fashion’ categories and then, to analyze the gap between ‘Fashion’ categories defined by them and extensive ‘Fashion’categories, which are approached on 2 sides of the fashion-life and fashion-business. We select 5 major search engines for the case study: Yahoo, Lycos, Naver, Hanmir, Empas, which ranked as top 5 of total search engines and potal sites in February, 2001, and retrieve ‘Fashion’ categories from the first level to the last level by using both “topics retrieval”. Eventually, we can find the problems of ‘Fashion’ category structure in search engines. Also, it is concluded with a brief perspective of ‘Fashion’ categories in the Internet search engines and the implications for the future.

• Journal for History of Mathematics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.82-87
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• 1999

The Internet has developed the computer and communications world. The Internet has tons of millions of sites. To find the specific information, we use a search engine. All search engines are operated by keyword against a database, but many different factors affect the result of search by engines. In this paper, we investigate the development of the Internet and try to find the differences among the most popular search engines.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.143-164
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to suggest the guidelines for organizing and maintaining their subject directory search engines which serve effective search results of web documents. The methods of this study are to review and analyze some directory search engines for finding problems of them and review literatures concerned with classification theory and previous studies. As results, this study suggests the guidelines for preparing the systematic subject directory scheme that is adapted to the internet directory search engines related to general andlor special subject fields through using the above guidelines.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.375-405
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• 2008

Recently, children's internet search engines are becoming the main method to access information. For those engines to function properly, search behavior of children as their searchers should be studied and the findings be applied to design and improve the systems. So an experiment was conducted and 22 3rd-grade elementary school students performed 3 searching tasks through 'Junior Naver' and 'Yahoo!꾸러기' which are representative children's search engines in Korea. Children's searching behavior was analyzed thoroughly through which the problems of children's search engines were diagnosed and recommendations were suggested to improve them.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.119-128
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• 2013

Most internet users utilize internet portal search engines, such as Naver, Daum and Google nowadays. But since the results of internet portal search engines are based on universal criteria (e.g. search frequency by region or country), they do not consider personal interests. Namely, current search engines do not provide exact search results for homonym or polysemy because they try to serve universal users. In order to solve this problem, this research determines keyword importance and weight value for each individual search characteristics by collecting and analyzing customized keyword at external database. The customized keyword weight values are integrated with search engine results (e.g. PageRank), and the search ranks are rearranged. Using 50 web pages of Goolge search results for experiment and 6 web pages for customized keyword collection, the new customized search results are proved to be 90% match. Our personalization approach is not the way that users enter preference directly, but the way that system automatically collects and analyzes personal information and then reflects them for customized search results.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.699-702
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• 2000

The Internet has become widely used in many countries. In particular, a new emerging technology, the WWW (World Wide Web), which has become a major application of the Internet, has been rapidly developed. As a result, there are hundreds of millions of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) on the WWW, and the total number of URLs is still explosively increasing. To get information from the WWW, we generally use Internet search engines. However, we cannot always get the actual information we want. Accordingly, we have solved this problem by constructing a prototype system based on agents by programming language Java for constructing a more effective search engine. This so-called “intelligent agent system on WWW” deletes redundant HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) files and exchanges information about the existence of URLs. And we found that our prototype system is more powerful and effective than conventional search engines.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.27
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• pp.457-483
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• 1997

This study was intended to compare the effectiveness of the Savvy search and Metacrawler in terms of the total number of relevant documents retrieved, precision, recall, and the number of deadlines. In addition, this study measured whether the Meta-search engine and general web search engines retrieved different web documents. As a result, Savvy search produced a higher precision and recall as compared with motacrawler search engine while the metacrawler had lower deadlines ration than savvy search, Also, Meta search engine was more effective than the general web search engine, The results show that the hybrid methodology of integrating a variety of web search engines can help solve retrieval effectiveness problems on the Internet.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.143-146
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• 2003

In the study, a new-concept search agent system for the WWW by using XML-based technology is proposed. The implementation of the prototype of this proposed system, the comparison with traditional search engines, and the evaluation of the prototype system are also.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.163-181
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• 2001

The Internet offers a challenging information seeking environment for users due to a great amount of information, heterogeneous objects, and diverse information quality. The purpose of this study was to identify the ways of information seeking, evaluating, and using in the Internet by looking at search behaviors of science and engineering scholars in Korean university. The research problems addressed in the study include the utility of web information, information searching strategies, the extent of search engines usage, and scholarly value of information in the Internet. The data were collected through individual interviews with 28 scholars recruited from science and engineering fields at the Myongji University. It was found that the scholars in this study less likely turn to search engines for finding research information than types of information while they use search engines primarily for searching personal information such as travel and hobbies. This is partly because the scholars believe that the information, especially research-related information, in the Internet lacks the value as scholarly information. They also tend to believe that foreign literature available in the Internet is more credible, professional, and recent than domestic literature. In conclusion, the implications for search engine developers, librarians, and researchers as users and producers in the Internet are discussed.