Towards a theory model for product search

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 327-336

  Li, Beibei ^a   Ghose, Anindya ^a   Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer surplus; Economics; Product search; Ranking; Text mining; User generated content; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER SURPLUS; PRODUCT SEARCH; RANKING; TEXT MINING; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; UTILITY THEORY;

DATA MINING; ECONOMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 80055041725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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