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Exploring the Capabilities of English and Hungarian Search Engines for Various Queries

Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 5. Dezember 2007
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This paper presents a test that examined the linguistic capabilities of English and Hungarian search engines. Three English-language search engines were tested: Google, AltaVista and AlltheWeb. For comparison, five significant Hungarian search engines were considered: Heuréka, Origo-Vizsla, Kurzor, Góliát and Altavizsla. The analysis was based on the following aspects: stemming, handling of stopwords and diacritics, truncation and searching for synonyms. The results indicate that while the Hungarian search engines are motivated to take into consideration the specific characteristics of the Hungarian language, on the whole the English-language search engines ignore the special characteristics of the Hungarian language. In the cases examined none of the general search engines handled diacritics well; that caused their resulting weaknesses in finding information relevant for Hungarian users.

Erzsébet Tóth: Library and Applied Information Science Group, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, College of Nyíregyháza, Sóstói út 31/b, 4400 Nyíregyháza, Hungary. E-mail:
Received: 2005-12
Received: 2006-02-21
Accepted: 2006-02-27
Published Online: 2007-12-05
Published in Print: 2006-April-25

© 2006 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2006.38

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  1. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): A Global Challenge in the New Millennium
  2. The Other Side of the Coin for Open Access Publishing – A Developing Country View
  3. Websites and Internationalization: A Survey of Norwegian Academic, Research and Special Libraries
  4. Exploring the Capabilities of English and Hungarian Search Engines for Various Queries
  5. The Information Literacy Education Readiness of Public Libraries in Mpumalanga Province (South Africa)
  6. Knowledge Management in a Research Organisation: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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