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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Predicting searcher frustration
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
Henry A. Feild, James Allan, Rosie Jones
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Improving searcher models using mouse cursor activity
Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan ...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Visibility-Based Pursuit-Evasion with Limited Field of View
We study a form of the pursuit-evasion problem, in which one or more searchers must move through a given environment so as to guarantee detection of any and all evaders, which can...
Brian P. Gerkey, Sebastian Thrun, Geoffrey J. Gord...