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MIR
2003
ACM
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14 years 27 days ago
An analysis of multimedia searching on AltaVista
Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate re...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Jan O. Pedersen
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding user goals in web search
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Daniel E. Rose, Danny Levinson
IPM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink