Users’ perceptions of the Web as revealed by transaction log analysis

Online Information Review

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 349-359

  Moukdad, Haidar ^a   Large, Andrew ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Internet; Research

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

CAPTURE SESSIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0035556214     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006534     Document Type: Article

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