Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study
This paper reports selected findings from an ongoing series of studies analyzing large-scale data sets containing queries posed by Excite users, a major Internet search service. The findings presented report on: (1) queries length and frequency, (2) Boolean queries, (3) query reformulation, (4) phra...
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description | This paper reports selected findings from an ongoing series of studies analyzing large-scale data sets containing queries posed by Excite users, a major Internet search service. The findings presented report on: (1) queries length and frequency, (2) Boolean queries, (3) query reformulation, (4) phrase searching, (5) search term distribution, (6) relevance feedback, (7) viewing pages of results, (8) successive searching, (9) sexually-related searching, (10) image queries and (11) multi-lingual aspects. Further research is discussed. |
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spelling | doaj-art-ead2bebdc0a340f4ad530f7235d278c92025-02-02T03:22:57ZengUniversity of BoråsInformation Research: An International Electronic Journal1368-16132000-01-016190Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite studyAmanda SpinkJack L. XuThis paper reports selected findings from an ongoing series of studies analyzing large-scale data sets containing queries posed by Excite users, a major Internet search service. The findings presented report on: (1) queries length and frequency, (2) Boolean queries, (3) query reformulation, (4) phrase searching, (5) search term distribution, (6) relevance feedback, (7) viewing pages of results, (8) successive searching, (9) sexually-related searching, (10) image queries and (11) multi-lingual aspects. Further research is discussed.http://informationr.net/ir/6-1/paper90.htmllarge-scale data setsqueriesExciteuserssearch servicequery lengthquery frequencyBoolean queriesquery reformulationphrase searchingsearch term distributionrelevance feedbacksuccessive searchingsex-related searchingimage queriesmulti-lingual aspects |
spellingShingle | Amanda Spink Jack L. Xu Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study Information Research: An International Electronic Journal large-scale data sets queries Excite users search service query length query frequency Boolean queries query reformulation phrase searching search term distribution relevance feedback successive searching sex-related searching image queries multi-lingual aspects |
title | Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study |
title_full | Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study |
title_fullStr | Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study |
title_full_unstemmed | Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study |
title_short | Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study |
title_sort | selected results from a large study of web searching the excite study |
topic | large-scale data sets queries Excite users search service query length query frequency Boolean queries query reformulation phrase searching search term distribution relevance feedback successive searching sex-related searching image queries multi-lingual aspects |
url | http://informationr.net/ir/6-1/paper90.html |
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