Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are lo...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
Investigating whether one can view Web searching as a learning process, we examined the searching characteristics of 41 participants engaged in 246 searching tasks. We classified ...
Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Keith Smith, Danielle L. ...
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has complicated the process of web browsing by providing an overwhelming wealth of choices for the end user. To alleviate this burden, intell...
The rapid increase of web complexity and size makes web searched results far from satisfaction in many cases due to a huge amount of information returned by search engines. How to...