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Hu, Shuyue; Cai, Yi; Leung, Ho-fung; Huang, Dongping; Yang, Yang – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2017
With the development of e-commerce, websites such as Amazon and eBay have become very popular. Users post reviews of products and rate the helpfulness of reviews on these websites. Reviews written by a user and reviews rated by a user reflect the user's interests and disinterest. Thus, they are very useful for user profiling. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Information Retrieval, Web Sites, Information Needs
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Cohen, Laura B. – Research Strategies, 2005
An instruction program that covers search tools on the Web should incorporate a user's information need as the basis for teaching these tools. This article lays the theoretical groundwork for such a query-based approach, deriving its argument from the literature published in the early days of databases in libraries. A review of recent literature…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Internet, Search Strategies, Librarians