Search Engines and Arabic Language
Salah S. Al-Rawi, Belal Al-Khateeb
International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2010.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jcl/fulltext/v1n1/3.pdf
Abstract:
This paper presents an attempt to show the efficiency of some search engines in handling Arabic keywords. To achieve this, a comparison was made among the number of retrieved pages, retrieving time, and stability (in both the number of retrieved pages and the order for each retrieved page) for each of the 20 Arabic keywords selected (with its roots) after being simultaneously entered to the selected four search engines. Search engines tested in this experiment were Google, Yahoo, Al-hoodhood and Ayna. Google was the best search engine among the four selected search engines according to the results obtained over 10 weeks of experimenting.