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WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2004
ACM
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Springer
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...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
WISE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Many activities on the web are driven by high-level goals of users, such as “plan a trip” or “buy some product”. In this paper, we are interested in exploring the role and ...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...