Assessing the scenic route: Measuring the value of search trails in web logs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 587-594

  White, Ryen W ^a   Huang, Jeff ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Log analysis; Search trails; Trail following

Indexed keywords

LANDING PAGES; LOG ANALYSIS; QUERY TYPES; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; SCENIC ROUTES; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH SYSTEM; SEARCH TRAILS; TOOLBARS; TOPIC DIVERSITY; TRAIL FOLLOWING; WEBLOGS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77956025820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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