Are people asking questions of general Web search engines?

Online Information Review

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 396-406

  Ozmutlu, Seda ^a   Ozmutlu, Huseyin C ^a   Spink, Amanda ^b  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Search engines; Searchers; User studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BOOLEAN QUERIES; QUERY PROCESSING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0347063589     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520310510037     Document Type: Article

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