ABSTRACT

This paper compared the retrieval effectiveness in context of precision and relative recall of Google and Bing search engine for evaluating the effectiveness of both search engine. The queries used are related to general and some computer science field. The queries are divided into three categories. The categories were simple one word, simple multi word and complex multi word queries. The results showed that the precision of Google was high for simple one word queries(0.76) and Bing had comparatively high precision of simple multi word queries(0.96) and Complex multi word queries(0.89). Relative recall of Google were high for all simple one word queries(0.94), simple multi word queries(0.70) and complex multi word queries(0.80).