How do greek searchers form their web queries?

Webist 2007 - 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Proceedings

Volumn WIA, Issue , 2007, Pages 404-407

  Lazarinis, Fotis ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Search engine evaluation; Web queries; Web searching

Indexed keywords

GREECE; NATURAL LANGUAGES; QUERY TERMS; WEB COMMUNITY; WEB QUERIES; WEB SEARCHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 67649988074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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