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The advent of the current generation of Web search engines around 1998 challenged the relevance of academic information retrieval research – established evaluation methodologies didn’t scale and nor did they reflect the diverse purposes to which search engines are now put. Academic ranking algorithms of the time almost completely ignored the features which underpin modern web search: query-independent evidence and evidence external to the document. Unlike their commercial counterparts, academic researchers have for years been unable to access Web scale collections and their corresponding link graphs and search logs.
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Hawking, D. (2006). Enterprise Search — The New Frontier?. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_2
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