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WINE
2005
Springer
143views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
An Analysis of Search Engine Switching Behavior Using Click Streams
In this paper, we propose a simple framework to characterize the switching behavior between search engines based on click streams. We segment users into a number of categories bas...
Yun-Fang Juan, Chi-Chao Chang
DL
1998
Springer
110views Digital Library» more  DL 1998»
14 years 2 hour ago
Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Estimating advertisability of tail queries for sponsored search
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
JCIT
2008
93views more  JCIT 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A search quality evaluation based on objective-subjective method
Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users' queries to multiple conventional search engines and in...
Fugui Wang, Yajun Du, Qinhua Dong
WSDM
2010
ACM
197views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Beyond DCG: user behavior as a predictor of a successful search
Web search engines are traditionally evaluated in terms of the relevance of web pages to individual queries. However, relevance of web pages does not tell the complete picture, si...
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, Kristina Lisa Klinkner