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Peer reviewedSpink, Amanda; Wolfram, Dietmar; Jansen, Major B. J.; Saracevic, Tefko – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Reports findings from a study of searching behavior by over 200,000 users of the Excite search engine. Analysis of over one million queries revealed most people use few search terms, few modified queries, view few Web pages, and rarely use advanced search features. Concludes that Web searching by the public differs significantly from searching of…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Internet, Online Searching
