Social search: A taxonomy of, and a user-centred approach to, social web search

Program

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-28

  Mcdonnell, Michael ^a   Shiri, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Design; Information retrieval; Search engines; User interfaces; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953017720     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331111107376     Document Type: Article

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