Evaluate and Compare Chinese Internet Search Engines Based on Users´ Experience

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of Chinese people use Web search engines every day. This paper describes the evaluation of three Chinese search engines based on human judgments. As a case study, three popular Chinese search engines are examined. We develop an online tool to assist human evaluation. The evaluation takes the relevancy aspects as well as the subjectivity of the search engines users into account. This study provides the results show that there is small degree of differences between them. It also provides the evidence suggests that there are some factors indeed influence the experience of search engine users. The report may be useful supplements to other studies of compare search engines that are being tried by search engine researchers.