The SkyServer is an Internet portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalog Archive Server. From 2001 to 2006, there were a million visitors in 3 million sessions generating 170 mi...
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Giuseppe Anastasi, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, An...
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Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Franco Mazzan...
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Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...