Towards improving web search: A large-scale exploratory study of selected aspects of user search behavior

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

Volumn 5802 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 379-386

  Ohshima, Hiroaki ^a   Jatowt, Adam ^a   Oyama, Satoshi ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Katsumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Search engines; User study; User survey; Web search

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INFORMATION SOURCES; KEY FACTORS; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; USER NEED; USER STUDY; USER SURVEYS; WEB SEARCH; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SURVEYS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 71549155653     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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