Google search engine is one of the most popular search engines used on the Internet today. It is used to display search results in English, but also in other languages as well. In this paper, we focus on display of search results in Hebrew. Search results retrieved from textual databases may be presented in several ways. In commercial search engines, the most common method is the presentation of a list that includes the titles of the retrieved documents, and, sometimes, the first few lines of each document and additional information. A series of studies at the Hebrew University examined the impact of different textual elements presented to the user on the effectiveness of the search. In the current experiment, presentation of search results in the Google-based interface was compared to presentation of search results in the LCC&K (Line in Context, Categories & Keywords) interface that was developed consequent to the findings of a previous series of studies. Both interfaces displayed the search results in Hebrew and addressed a Hebrew-speaking population. The outcome of the experiment shows that although Hebrew is considered to be a complex language considering its morphology aspects, there is little difference between the results obtained in a previous experiment that was conducted in English and the current experiment that was conducted in Hebrew. This paper will address the experimental process and its findings.
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