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Is Relevance Relevant? User Relevance Ratings May Not Predict the Impact of Internet Search on Decision Outcomes

Author(s) -

Enrico Coiera,

Victor Vickland

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1197/jamia.m2663

Subject(s) - relevance (law) , the internet , computer science , search engine , information retrieval , metasearch engine , test (biology) , internet users , outcome (game theory) , world wide web , web search query , paleontology , mathematics , mathematical economics , biology , political science , law

A common measure of Internet search engine effectiveness is its ability to find documents that a user perceives as 'relevant'. This study sought to test whether user provided relevance ratings for documents retrieved by an Internet search engine correlate with the decision outcome after use of a search engine.

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