
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 21. July 2004
Book
Hardback
XIII, 199 pages
978-1-4020-2268-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book brings together results from the Web search studies we conducted from 1997 through 2004. The aim of our studies has been twofold: to examine how the public at large searches the Web and to highlight trends in public Web searching. The eight-year period from 1997 to 2004 saw the beginnings and maturity of public Web searching. Commercial Web search engines have come and gone, or endured, through the fall of the dot.com companies. We saw the rise and, in some cases, the demise of several high profile, publicly available Web search engines. The study of the Web search is an exciting and important area of interdisciplinary research. Our book provides a valuable insight into the growth and development of human interaction with Web search engines. In this book, our focus is on the human aspect of the interaction between user and Web search engine. We do not investigate the Web search engines themselves or their constantly changing interfaces, algorithms and features. We focus on exploring the cognitive and user aspects of public Web searching in the aggregate. We use a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods within the overall methodology known as transaction log analysis.
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Series
Edition
2004 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 199 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4020-2268-5 (9781402022685)
DOI
10.1007/1-4020-2269-7
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Content
Technological, Social and Organizational Context.- Human Information Behavior and Human Computer Interaction Context.- Research Design.- Search Terms.- Search Queries.- Search Sessions.- E-Commerce Web Searching.- Medical and Health Web Searching.- Sexually-Related Web Searching.- Multimedia Searching.- Key Findings, Trends, Further Research and Conclusions.