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....test the ability of metasearch to improve only recall or only precision; rather we use a standard combined measure, average precision at relevant documents, which we de ne later. More consistent performance: Another desirable quality for a search engine is reliable behavior. Selberg and Etzioni [66] show that the same Web search engine often responds to the same query very di erently over time, perhaps due to the evolution of its database. Even with a xed database, however, each search engine will have its strengths and weaknesses, performing well on some queries and poorly on others. ....
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Erik Selberg and Oren Etzioni. On the instability of web search engines. In (to appear in?) Proceeding of RIAO 2000.
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