The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examin...
We investigate three methods for defining a session on Web search engines. We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 Web searchers. We compare defining sessions using: 1) Int...
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...
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...