What users see - Structures in search engine results pages

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1796-1812

  Höchstötter, Nadine ^a   Lewandowski, Dirk ^b  

^a Department for Research and Development ^*  (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Search engine results pages; Search engines; Search shortcuts

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EVALUATION; ORGANIC RESULTS; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS PAGES; SEARCH ENGINES - GOOGLE; SEARCH QUERIES; SEARCH SHORTCUTS; SPECIFIC INTERFACES; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WIKIPEDIA; YOUTUBE;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 63149172083     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.01.028     Document Type: Article

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