Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
Purpose – This paper reports the findings of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by three major web search engines. The goal of the research was to: mea...
Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Chris Blakely, Sh...
Cloaking is a common “bait-and-switch” technique used to hide the true nature of a Web site by delivering blatantly different semantic content to different user segments. It i...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...