The demographics of web search

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 523-530

  Weber, Ingmar ^a   Castillo, Carlos ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demographic factors; Web search

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; DATA SOURCE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; QUERY LOGS; QUERY SUGGESTION; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; USER MODELING; WEB SEARCH BEHAVIOR; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES; ZIP CODE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77956018090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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