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Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Amanda Spink

  2. The Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Bernhard J. Jansen

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(2005). Medical and Health Web Searching. In: Spink, A., Jansen, B.J. (eds) Web Search: Public Searching of the Web. Information Science and Knowledge Management, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2269-7_8

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