Browsing by Author "Lahkar, Narendra"

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    Awareness About and Use of Internet Search Engines Amongst Social Science Researchers in North East India
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-11-09) Laloo, Bikika; Lahkar, Narendra
    Discusses findings of a study conducted on Social Science researchers in two Universities in North East India. Findings show that Social Science researchers in North East India are having the same issues regarding Internet search engines as researchers in other parts of the world. Concludes that better presentation of web sites would help them get indexed by search engines and make them more accessible. Also, improvement in search strategies would help researchers find more relevant information, faster.
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    Digitisation of Culture
    (INFLIBNET CENTER, 2007-12-07) Maltesh, Motebennur; Lahkar, Narendra; Gajakose, Swati
    The present paper discusses about digitisation of cultural heritages of India and other parts of the world encompasses the Memory of the World was built on the premise that the cultural society has the responsibility to preserve information about its history and to make it available also for future generations. It also highlights Organization role of metadata and delivery and access. Enumerates key projects taken in western countries and also initiatives in India. Highlights main issues regarding manuscript digitization and archiving.
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    Impact of Query Operators on Web Search Engine Results : An Evaluative Study
    (INFLIBNET Center, 2004-11) Lahkar, Narendra; Deka, Sanjib K
    Study on Web search services have reported that about 90% of Web searchers using simple queries and only 10% use advanced query operators. In this study, three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN, are compared in the areas of coverage and duplication in terms of use of Query Operators. Google is found at the top in terms of coverage, as compared with the other two search engines, i.e. MSN Search and Yahoo!. Analysis shows that there is a significant change in coverage when using query operators in all the three search engines. It is found that correct use of query operators would increase the effectiveness of web searching.
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    Search Engines: The Invader to Privacy
    (INFLIBNET CENTER, 2007-12-07) Lahkar, Narendra; Deka, Sanjib K
    The Search Engines has dominated the Internet by their popular social services. The web Search Engines has been regarded as the second most used web service after the popular Internet service, i.e., e-mail. Worldwide search markets shows that more than 750 million people - an estimated 95 percent of global Internet users conducted 61 billion cumulative searches in every month. In this paper it has been discussed the magnitude of Search Engine. It has been seen that the Search Engines keep track of all the searches that the user formulates. The paper discussed the possibility of invading privacy by the well-advanced Search Engines and possible leakage of personal information by these web search services. Some solutions have been discussed to cope up with these Search Engines threats.
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    Swicki: A New Dimension In Social Search
    (INFLIBNET CENTER, 2007-12-07) Lahkar, Narendra; Barman, Badan
    Swicki is a cross between a search engine and a wiki. It is a custom social search engines developed by Eurekster Inc, New Zealand and was launched to the public on January 21, 2004. Swicki can be developed by any one on any topic, with every search, vote and click it will generate power in retrieving more relevant results and turns into a valuable asset. The article discussed an overview, benefit of swicki and technique for creating it.