Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies

By Christoph Hölscher, Gerhard Strube. Comput. Networks, 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Information Systems

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The Turn - Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (2005, background): “This constitutes an extension of the conception as originally proposed in Ingwersen (1992). Further, our information conception reflects Machlup’s (1983) and Belkin’s (1978) two-level communication models.”
Transparent Queries: investigation users' mental models of search engines (2001, background): “Most studies of searchers have focused on understanding or modeling users' search strategies and behaviors [3].”
Comparative study on methods of detecting research fronts using different types of citation (2009, background): “According to Holscher and Strube (2000) , users who were able to draw upon their own expertise in both domain and retrieval knowledge were the most successful in their Web-searching”
Investigating behavioral variability in web search (2007, background): “Hölscher and Strube [13] conducted a study of search behaviors, and found that people’s background, knowledge of the Web, and search experience can greatly influence their search behavior.”
Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior (2009, background): “[12] Hölscher, C. & Strube, G. (2000).”
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).”
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006, background): “…include: (1) a 1997 study of the Excite Web search engine (Jansen, Spink, & Saracevic, 2000), (2) a 1998 study of the Fireball Web search engine (Hölscher & Strube, 2000), (3) a 1998 study of the AltaVista Web search engine (Silverstein et al., 1999), (4) a 1999 study of the Excite Web search…”
How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult? (2010, methodology): “…less [22] time in search tasks, reformulate the queries less often [11], use query formatting tools more often and make less errors using them [4, 11], use longer queries [1, 11], use a "depth-first" or "bottom-up" strategy [15, 19], use a more systematic query refinement strategy [8], and have…”
Rethinking Internet skills: The contribution of gender, age, education, Internet experience, and hours online to medium- and content-related Internet skills (2011, background): “…or getting lost (Ahuja and Webster, 2001; Otter and Johnson, 2000), selecting search results (Aula and Nordhausen, 2006; Birru et al., 2004; Hölscher and Strube, 2000; Pan et al., 2007), defining search queries (Birru et al., 2004; Lucas and Topi, 2002; Spink et al., 2001), and evaluating…”
Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship in a Digital Age (2009, background): “…in finding information online and in discerning the truth or reliability of the information they found (Hoffman, Wu, Krajcik, & Soloway, 2003; Holscher & Strube, 2000; Jones, 2002; Kafai & Bates, 1997; Kuiper et al., 2005; Livingstone et al., 2008; Wallace, Kupperman, Krajcik, & Soloway,…”