A Study on Performance Evaluation of International Web Search Engines Based on English, Arabic, and Turkish Languages in Various Categories

ABSTRACT: This study illustrates the performance evaluation of the three international Web search engines Google, Bing, and Yahoo based on the three languages English, Arabic, and Turkish in six various categories, i.e., “business”, “culture”, “health”, “sports”, “technology”, and “travel”. A total of 30 categorised queries (five per category) were determined and each of them was run in English, in Arabic, and in Turkish languages separately on each of the three Web search engines. At each run, every document retrieved in the first 10 was classified as “relevant” or “non-relevant” and, in each category, precision ratios and normalized recall ratios were calculated for each of the five queries at every Web search engine and language pair. Then, they were used in the evaluation. In all categories, generally, the Web search engines performed better performances in English document retrieval compared to Arabic document retrieval and Turkish document retrieval. Keywords: Web Search Engine, English Language, Arabic Language, Turkish Language, Information Retrieval. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………