Investigating the querying and browsing behavior of advanced search engine users

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-262

  White, Ryen W ^a   Morris, Dan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced search features; Expert searching; Query formulation; Query syntax

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SEARCH FEATURES; EXPERT SEARCHING; QUERY FORMULATION; QUERY SYNTAX;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 36448945769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277787     Document Type: Article

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