Finding our way on the web: Exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 147-148

  White, Ryen W ^a   Singla, Adish ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

search trails; waypoints

Indexed keywords

CLICK THROUGH; INFORMATION NEED; INTERACTIVE SEARCH; LANDING PAGES; LOG DATA; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH TRAILS; WAYPOINTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LANDING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79955156622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963192.1963267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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