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Web search engine multimedia functionality

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Web search engines are beginning to offer access to multimedia searching, including audio, video and image searching.
In this paper we report findings from a study examining the state of multimedia search functionality on major general
and specialized Web search engines. We investigated 102 Web search engines to examine: (1) how many
Web search engines offer multimedia searching, (2) the type of multimedia search functionality and methods offered, such as “query by example”, and (3) the supports for personalization or customization which are accessible as advanced search. Findings include: (1) few major Web search engines offer multimedia searching and (2) multimedia Web search functionality is generally limited. Our findings show that despite the increasing level of interest in multimedia Web search, those few Web search engines offering multimedia Web search, provide limited multimedia search functionality. Keywords are still the only means of multimedia retrieval, while other methods such as “query by example” are offered by less than 1% of Web search engines examined.

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Series Title

Information Processing & Management

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Publisher

s.l. : Elsevier., 2008

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0306-4573

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Edition

Vol. 44, No. 1, Page 340-357

Subject(s)

Web search
Multimedia
Image
Audio
Video

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