A comparison of visual and textual page previews in judging the helpfulness of web pages

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-59

  Aula, Anne ^a   Khan, Rehan M ^a   Guan, Zhiwei ^a   Fontes, Paul ^a   Hong, Peter ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

snippets; thumbnails; user study; web page previews

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ELEMENTS; ONLINE SURVEYS; TEXTUAL INFORMATION; USER STUDY; WEB PAGE; WEB PAGE PREVIEW;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954571685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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