Retrieval Efficiency of Search Engines on Medical Tourism in Kerala: A Webometric Analysis
Thanuskodi S, Naseehath S
Journal of Information & Systems Management, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2019.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jism/2019/9/3/91-99
Link: http://www.dline.info/jism/fulltext/v9n3/jismv9n3_3.pdf
Abstract:
World Wide Web is like an ocean of information; it is not easy to find specific information from it because the web
is very huge and growing all the time. So there are certain tools used to search information from the web. They are called search
engines. They search through all the web sites and create an index of the information of the web sites and act as a single point
to find relevant information. E.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Lycos, Info seek etc. Analysis on 8 representative variables form all the
subsectors of on Medical Tourism in Kerala, the search engine Lycos retrieves 59% of the total results and stands first followed
by Bing in the second position with 37% and Google in third position with only 2% of results . The remaining less than 1% is
shared by all Metasearch engines, of these Ixquick stands first with a slight difference from others followed by Dogpile and
WebCrawler Analysis of 10 variables on Ayurveda tourism Lycos occupies first place with a high result of 85% and Google in
the second position followed by Bing in the third position with a less Percentage of 7 and 6 respectively. Among Metasearch
engines Ixquick stands first, followed by WebCrawler and Dogpile.