Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users
As Web search services become a major source of information for a growing number of people, we need to know more about how users search heterogeneous collections using Web search engines. This paper reports the results from a major study exploring users' information searching behaviour on the E...
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| description | As Web search services become a major source of information for a growing number of people, we need to know more about how users search heterogeneous collections using Web search engines. This paper reports the results from a major study exploring users' information searching behaviour on the EXCITE Web search engine. Three hundred and fifty-seven (357) EXCITE users responded to an interactive survey, including their search topics, intended query terms, search frequency for information on their topic, and demographic data. Results show that: users tend to employ simple search strategies, and conduct successive searches over time to find information related to a particular topic. Implications for the design of Web search services are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-83796d6ec62547d4ae331afa954dea662025-02-02T06:59:51ZengUniversity of BoråsInformation Research: An International Electronic Journal1368-16131998-01-014253Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite usersAmanda SpinkJudy BatemanBernard. J. JansenAs Web search services become a major source of information for a growing number of people, we need to know more about how users search heterogeneous collections using Web search engines. This paper reports the results from a major study exploring users' information searching behaviour on the EXCITE Web search engine. Three hundred and fifty-seven (357) EXCITE users responded to an interactive survey, including their search topics, intended query terms, search frequency for information on their topic, and demographic data. Results show that: users tend to employ simple search strategies, and conduct successive searches over time to find information related to a particular topic. Implications for the design of Web search services are discussed.http://informationr.net/ir/4-2/paper53.htmlWebsearch servicessearch enginesinformation searchingbehaviourEXCITEinteractive surveyquery termsdemographic datasuccessive searches |
| spellingShingle | Amanda Spink Judy Bateman Bernard. J. Jansen Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users Information Research: An International Electronic Journal Web search services search engines information searching behaviour EXCITE interactive survey query terms demographic data successive searches |
| title | Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users |
| title_full | Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users |
| title_fullStr | Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users |
| title_full_unstemmed | Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users |
| title_short | Searching heterogeneous collections on the Web: behaviour of Excite users |
| title_sort | searching heterogeneous collections on the web behaviour of excite users |
| topic | Web search services search engines information searching behaviour EXCITE interactive survey query terms demographic data successive searches |
| url | http://informationr.net/ir/4-2/paper53.html |
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