Vox populi: The public searching of the web

Wolfram, Dietmar; Spink, Amanda; Jansen, Bernard J.; Saračević, Tefko

doi:10.1002/asi.1157

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“…This is an indication that the topics of interest have shifted from entertainment and sexuality to computer systems and entertainment. This pattern is similar to the Excite studies reported by Wolfram et al [6] and Spink et al [2] showing that topics of interest have shifted from entertainment and sexuality to e-commerce, people and computers. The most frequent terms in all queries and in unique queries of Gnutella are also investigated.…”

Section: Changes In Terms Used In Gnutella Queriessupporting

confidence: 88%

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Changes in queries in Gnutella peer-to-peer networks

Yang

Kwok

2005

Journal of Information Science

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Abstract.Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been drawing significant attention in the area of information management and sharing recently. Unlike the World Wide Web (WWW), every peer in a P2P network is both client and server. It hosts information for sharing and submits queries to search for information from all of the other peers at the same time. There are a large number of studies related to the information behavior of WWW search engines in the US and Europe. Several issues have been investigated in these studies including number of unique and repeat queries, length of queries, terms being used in queries, successive searching, multitasking searching, multiple searching sessions, changes of topics, multimedia searching, etc. The number of similar studies in P2P networks is significantly less. We have previously studied the information behavior of Gnutella P2P network based on data collected in 2002. In this paper, we present changes in Gnutella queries, based on the previously collected data and new data collected in 2003. Similar metrics to those used by Spink, Wolfram, Jansen, and Saracevic and in our previous study are used. We found that the number of non-English queries has increased. The number of repeat queries in P2P has decreased but is still more than that for WWW search engines. The length of queries has been increased by about 40%. The topics of interest have shifted from entertainment and sexuality to computers and entertainment. In general, the information behavior of P2P users has been changing as the P2P technology becomes more mature and the P2P users become more familiar with the technology. As the P2P technology begins to be adopted in e-Business, we foresee that there will be more changes in the future.

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Section: Changes In Terms Used In Gnutella Queriessupporting

confidence: 88%

“…As stated by Wolfram et al [6], longitudinal studies of Web searching provide valuable insights into how public searching is evolving, changing, and moving in certain directions. These insights support Web design and public policy decisions.…”

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Changes in queries in Gnutella peer-to-peer networks

Yang

Kwok

2005

Journal of Information Science

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“…For example, Jansen et al has analysed the query patterns of large numbers of Web searchers, looking in particular at how search behaviour has evolved over the years. See, [11,12,13,23,24,26]. Silverstein et al [20] looked at key query patterns in the AltaVista search engine.…”

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A large scale study of European mobile search behaviour

Church

Smyth

Bradley

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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Recent evidence suggests that mobile search is becoming an increasingly important way for mobile users to gain access to online information, especially as off-portal content continues to grow rapidly. In this paper we study the characteristics of mobile search by analysing approximately 6 million individual search requests generated by over 260,000 individual mobile searchers over a 7-day period during 2006. We analyse the patterns of queries used by mobile searchers and focus on key characteristics such as the clickthru rates of mobile searches in order to understand, for the first time, just how well mobile search engines are responding to user queries. Moreover, we compare our results to a number of recent mobile studies and highlight some of the key differences between mobile search and traditional Web search behaviours.

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“…[5]). Despite this history, there is increasing focus on web sessions, where search engines are keen to better support searchers who continue to search for more than a few queries or minutes [35,33,2]. Queries can be disambiguated, for example, given a user's query history, but more specifically against current queries if the bounds of the current session are known.…”

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A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions

Wilson

2014

Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. ABSTRACTAlthough research is increasingly interested in session-based retrieval, comparably little work has focused on how best to divide web histories into sessions. Most automated attempts to divide web histories into sessions have focused on dividing web logs using simplistic rules, including user identifiers and specific time gaps. This research, however, is focused on understanding the full range of factors that affect the division of sessions, so that we can begin to go beyond current naive techniques like fixed time periods of inactivity. To investigate these factors, 10,000 log items were manually analysed by their owners into 847 naturally occurring web sessions. During interviews, participants reviewed their own web histories to identify these sessions, and described the causes of divisions between sessions. This paper contributes a taxonomy of six factors that can be used to better model the divisions between sessions, along with initial insights into how the divided sessions manifested in web logs. The factors in our taxonomy provide focus for future work, including our own, for finding practical ways to more intelligently divide and identify sessions for improved session-based retrieval.

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Vox populi: The public searching of the web

Cited by 93 publications

References 3 publications

Changes in queries in Gnutella peer-to-peer networks

Changes in queries in Gnutella peer-to-peer networks

A large scale study of European mobile search behaviour

A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions

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