Predictive modeling of first-click behavior in web-search

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1031-1032

  O'Brien, Maeve ^a   Keane, Mark T ^a   Smyth, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Empirical tests; Information navigation; Information scent; Link analysis; Predictive user modeling; Search behavior; Web evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NAVIGATION; SEARCH ENGINES;

EMPIRICAL TESTS; INFORMATION NAVIGATION; LINK ANALYSIS; WEB EVOLUTION;

SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EMPIRICAL TESTS; INFORMATION NAVIGATION; INFORMATION SCENT; LINK ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE USER MODELING; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; WEB EVOLUTION;

EID: 34250683803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1135777.1136000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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