Retrievability is a term associated with the ease with which information can be found or retrieved using an information system, specifically a
search engine or
information retrieval system.
A document (or information object) has high retrievability if there are many queries which retrieve the document via the search engine, and the document is ranked sufficiently high that a user would encounter the document. Conversely, if there are few queries that retrieve the document, or when the document is retrieved the documents are not high enough in the ranked list, then the document has low retrievability.
Retrievability can be considered as one aspect of
findability Findability is the ease with which information contained on a website can be found, both from outside the website (using search engines and the like) and by users already on the website. Although findability has relevance outside the World Wide Web, ...
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Applications of retrievability include detecting
search engine bias, measuring algorithmic bias, evaluating the influence of search technology, tuning information retrieval systems and evaluating the quality of documents in a
collection.
See also
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Information retrieval
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Knowledge mining
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Search engine optimization
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Findability Findability is the ease with which information contained on a website can be found, both from outside the website (using search engines and the like) and by users already on the website. Although findability has relevance outside the World Wide Web, ...
References
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*{{cite book, author1=Azzopardi, L. , author2=Vinay, V. , name-list-style=amp , chapter=Accessibility in information retrieval, title=Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval, year=2008, pages=482–489, publisher=Springer, location=Glasgow, UK, series=ECIR '08, isbn=9783540786450 , chapter-url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1793333, accessdate=7 Dec 2016
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