TY - JOUR
T1 - Real life information retrieval
T2 - A study of user queries on the web
AU - Jansen, Bernard J.
AU - Spink, Amanda
AU - Bateman, Judy
AU - Saracevic, Tefko
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - We analyzed transaction logs of a set of 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) queries - the number of search terms, and the use of logic and modifiers, (ii) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number of pages viewed, and use of relevance feedback, and (iii) terms - their rank/frequency distribution and the most highly used search terms. Common mistakes are also observed. Implications are discussed.
AB - We analyzed transaction logs of a set of 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) queries - the number of search terms, and the use of logic and modifiers, (ii) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number of pages viewed, and use of relevance feedback, and (iii) terms - their rank/frequency distribution and the most highly used search terms. Common mistakes are also observed. Implications are discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0001685668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/281250.281253
DO - 10.1145/281250.281253
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001685668
SN - 0163-5840
VL - 32
SP - 5
EP - 17
JO - SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
JF - SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
IS - 1
ER -