Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study

Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study

This paper reports selected findings from an ongoing series of studies analyzing large-scale data sets containing queries posed by Excite users, a major Internet search service. The findings presented report on: (1) queries length and frequency, (2) Boolean queries, (3) query reformulation, (4) phra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Amanda Spink, Jack L. Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Borås 2000-01-01
Series:Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Subjects:
large-scale data sets
queries
Excite
users
search service
query length
query frequency
Boolean queries
query reformulation
phrase searching
search term distribution
relevance feedback
successive searching
sex-related searching
image queries
multi-lingual aspects
Online Access:http://informationr.net/ir/6-1/paper90.html
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Summary:This paper reports selected findings from an ongoing series of studies analyzing large-scale data sets containing queries posed by Excite users, a major Internet search service. The findings presented report on: (1) queries length and frequency, (2) Boolean queries, (3) query reformulation, (4) phrase searching, (5) search term distribution, (6) relevance feedback, (7) viewing pages of results, (8) successive searching, (9) sexually-related searching, (10) image queries and (11) multi-lingual aspects. Further research is discussed.
ISSN:1368-1613

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