Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

199 Seiten

2010
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6629-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Reihe/Serie	Information Science & Knowledge Management ; 6
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 199 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Zertifizierung
ISBN-10	90-481-6629-2 / 9048166292
ISBN-13	978-90-481-6629-9 / 9789048166299
Zustand	Neuware