Query Heartbeat: A Strange Property of Keyword Queries on the Web

This paper illustrates a strange property that was encountered when analysing keyword query data. The objective of this work was to observe the temporal properties of keyword queries. However, we found that generic keyword queries that have large enough volumes tend to follow the same "attractor" distribution. This phenomenon was discovered in a 3-month dataset. However, a visually similar phenomenon was also apparent when the keywords were searched on Google.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: COMAD
• Authors: R. Karthik, Aditya Ramana Rachakonda, Srinath Srinivasa
• Keywords: COMAD 2008, Generic Keyword Queries, Keyword Queries, Keyword Query Data, Knowledge Management