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Thelwall, Mike – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Provides an up-to-date survey of the capabilities of the major 16 search engines with respect to the types of information extraction tasks that would be useful in Web data mining and cybermetrics, and analyzes two sets of domain counts for internal consistency between results. (AEF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Online Searching
Rieh, Soo Young; Xie, Hong – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Reports on patterns and sequences of query reformulation based on query logs from a Web search engine. Results show that while most query reformulation involves content changes, about 15% of reformulation is related to format modifications. Six patterns of query reformulation emerged as a result of sequence analysis: specified, parallel,…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Online Searching, Online Systems
Spink, Amanda; Ozmutlu, H. Cenk – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Reports findings from a study examining the nature of queries submitted to Ask Jeeves-a publicly accessible question and answer search engine. Some 30,000 queries from a dataset of 800,000, or 3.75%, were analyzed. Results include: many queries not in question format; four types of user queries: keyword, Boolean, question, and request; and common…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Online Searching, Online Systems, Search Engines
