Search characteristics in different types of Web-based IR environments: Are they the same?

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1279-1292

  Wolfram, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Transaction log analysis; Web search characteristics

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

RELATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSACTION LOG ANALYSIS; WEB SEARCH CHARACTERISTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 40649086403     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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