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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Personalize web search results with user's location
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumo...
IPM
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries durin...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages
We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Predicting when browsing context is relevant to search
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan