A large-scale study of automated web search traffic

AIRWeb 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-8

  Buehrer, Greg ^a   Stokes, Jack W ^b   Chellapilla, Kumar ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bot; Query; Search

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESS; AUTOMATED SEARCHES; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; BOT; CLICK-THROUGH RATES; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; ON-LINE GAMES; PHYSICAL MODELS; QUERY; QUERY LOGS; REAL TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SEARCH; SEARCH QUERIES; THIRD PARTY SYSTEMS; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 63049108004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1451983.1451985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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