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2002
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A taxonomy of web search

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A taxonomy of web search
: Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the socalled "information need". But the need behind a web search is often not informational -- it might be navigational (give me the url of the site I want to reach) or transactional (show me sites where I can perform a certain transaction, e.g. shop, download a file, or find a map). We explore this taxonomy of web searches and discuss how global search engines evolved to deal with web-specific needs.
Andrei Z. Broder
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Type Journal
Year 2002
Where SIGIR
Authors Andrei Z. Broder
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