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Searching the Web: a survey of EXCITE users

Amanda Spink, Judy Bateman, Bernard J. Jansen

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Web search services are now a major source of information for a growing number of people. We need to know more about how users search Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of their information retrieval. This paper reports results from a major study exploring users’ information searching behavior on the EXCITE Web search engine. The study is the first to investigate Web users’ successive searching behavior as they conduct related searches

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Key concepts: Search engine, World Wide Web, Computer science, Information retrieval, Web search engine, Search analytics, Metasearch engine, Web search query