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Web Search: Public Searching on the Web
Information Science and Knowledge Management 6
ISBN/EAN: 9781402022685
Umbreit-Nr.: 1650009
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiii, 199 S.
Format in cm: 1.5 x 24.7 x 16.5
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 21.07.2004
Auflage: 1/2004
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- Provides an examination of Web searching from multiple levels of analysis, from theoretical overview to detailed study of term usage. Drawing primarily on their own research and work in the field, the authors present the temporal changes in, the growth of, and the stability of how people interact with Web search engines.