Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

By Amanda Spink. Information Science and Knowledge Management, 2011

328 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Information Systems

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Using the Internet: Skill related problems in users' online behavior (2009, background): “The third direction covers the content provided by digital media and focuses on information search behavior (e.g., Hölscher and Strube, 2000; Marchionini, 1995; Spink and Jansen, 2004).”
Understanding PubMed® user search behavior through log analysis (2009, methodology): “For Web search in particular, there is growing interest in using these logs for research (4,5).”
Representation of the Online Tourism Domain in Search Engines (2008, background): “…http://jtr.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com Given the significance of search engines in the general use of the Internet (e.g., Spink and Jansen 2004) and particularly travel information search (Pan and Fesenmaier 2006; TIA 2005), this study focuses on the representation of…”
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries (2008, methodology): “We used an interaction cut-off to be consistent with the approach taken in previous Web searching studies (Jansen & Spink, 2005a; Jansen et al., 2005; Spink & Jansen , 2004) that was substantially greater than the mean search session (Jansen, Spink, & Saracevic, 2000) for human Web searchers.”
To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent (2008, background): “People‟s Web queries are short, varied, and include navigational and resource queries [6, 22].”
Role of social media in online travel information search (2010, background): “Search engines, to a great extent, define the practical boundaries of the online tourism domain and dictate the way it is represented (Henzinger, 2007; Prescott, 2006; Rose & Levinson, 2004; Spink & Jansen, 2004).”
Potential for personalization (2010, background): “The TREC topic scenario is unrealistic for Web search, where it is well known that people issue very short queries to describe their information needs [Spink and Jansen 2004].”
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006, background): “Wang, Berry, and Yang (2003) and Spink and Jansen (2004) also present detailed explanations of approaches to transaction log analysis.”
Search log analysis: What it is, what's been done, how to do it (2006, methodology): “Spink and Jansen (2004) provide an extensive bibliography of Web searching TLA studies.”