Who uses web search for what? And how?

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 15-24

  Weber, Ingmar ^a   Jaimes, Alejandro ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demographics; Query logs; Session analysis; Topic classification

Indexed keywords

CENSUS DATA; DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS; DEMOGRAPHICS; LAS VEGAS; NAVIGATIONAL QUERIES; ON-LINE BANKING; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; QUERY LOGS; SALT LAKE CITY; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SESSION ANALYSIS; TOPIC CLASSIFICATION; WEB SEARCHES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NAVIGATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952418852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935826.1935839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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