How do search engines respond to some non-English queries?
How do search engines respond to some non-English queries?
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DOI：
10.1177/0165551505049255
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Gutman, T
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作者：
Bar-Ilan, J;Gutman, T
在本文中，我们探索了搜索引擎对非英语语言的功能。作为测试案例，我们考虑了四种语言：俄语、法语、匈牙利语和希伯来语。对于这些语言中的每一种，我们测试了三种通用搜索引擎：阿尔塔维斯塔、FAST和Google以及一些本地搜索引擎。我们的研究结果表明，在检查的情况下，一般的搜索引擎忽略了非英语语言的特殊性，有时他们甚至不处理变音符号。这些调查结果是相当令人不安的，因为例如谷歌在非英语国家也很受欢迎，用户要么不知道他们错过了什么，当使用搜索工具时，不考虑特定语言的结构和特殊特征，要么别无选择，只能使用这些搜索引擎。
In this article, we explored the capabilities of search engines for non-English languages. As a test case, we considered four languages: Russian, French, Hungarian and Hebrew. For each of these languages we tested three general search engines: AltaVista, FAST and Google and some local search engines. Our results indicate that in the examined cases the general search engines ignore the special characteristics of non-English languages, and sometimes they do not even handle diacritics well. These findings are rather disturbing, since for example Google is very popular in non-English speaking countries as well, and users are either not aware of what they miss when using search tools that do not take into account the structure and the special characteristics of the specific language or have no alternatives but to use these search engines.