Studying information seeking on the non-English Web: An experiment on a Spanish business Web portal

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 811-829

  Chung, Wingyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Cross regional search capability; Information quality; Internet; Non English Web content; Searching; Spanish; User satisfaction; User study; Web; Web portal

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES;

BROWSING; CROSS-REGIONAL SEARCH CAPABILITY; INFORMATION QUALITY; NON-ENGLISH WEB CONTENT; SEARCHING; SPANISH; USER SATISFACTION; USER STUDY; WEB PORTAL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33745659248     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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