How to define searching sessions on web search engines

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4811 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 92-109

  Jansen, Bernard J ^a   Spink, Amanda ^b   Kathuria, Vinish ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Infospace Inc Search and Directory   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov states; Query reformulation; Web queries; Web sessions

Indexed keywords

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MARKOV STATES; QUERY REFORMULATION; SEARCH TRAFFIC; WEB QUERIES; WEB SEARCHING; WEB SESSIONS;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 38549108348     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77485-3_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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