Tales from the field: Search strategies applied in web searching

Future Internet

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-281

  Xie, Iris ^a   Joo, Soohyung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

IR system design; Search strategies; Search tactics; Web environment

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

GENERAL PUBLICS; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SEARCH PROCESS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH TACTICS; VERBAL PROTOCOLS; WEB SEARCH PROCESS; WEB-BASED INFORMATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84857371665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19995903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/fi2030259     Document Type: Article

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