Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 87-96

  White, Ryen W ^a   Dumais, Susan T ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Search engine switching

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENCOUNTERED INFORMATION; ENGINE SWITCHING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SURVEY DATA; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES;

ENGINES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SWITCHING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 74549170535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1645967     Document Type: Conference Paper

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