Transitions in search tactics during the Web-based search process

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2188-2205

  Xie, Iris ^a   Joo, Soohyung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; GENERAL PUBLICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MATRIX; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SEARCH LOGS; SEARCH PROCESS; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH SESSIONS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH TACTICS; SEARCH TASKS; SYSTEM DESIGN; VERBAL PROTOCOLS; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78149448352     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21391     Document Type: Article

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