A case for interaction: a study of interactive information retrieval behavior and effectiveness
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Usage analysis of a digital library
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Usage patterns of a Web-based library catalog
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Vox populi: the public searching of the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Monitoring and evaluation of information systems via transaction log analysis
SIGIR '84 Proceedings of the 7th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining longitudinal web queries: trends and patterns
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A temporal comparison of AltaVista Web searching: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: the interactive information retrieval context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Sample size and informetric model goodness-of-fit outcomes: a search engine log case study
Journal of Information Science
How are we searching the world wide web?: a comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web searching on the Vivisimo search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Defining a session on Web search engines: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Journal of Information Science
Natural language technology and query expansion: issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
How doctors search: A study of query behaviour and the impact on search results
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Ordinary search engine users carrying out complex search tasks
Journal of Information Science
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Transaction logs from four different Web-based information retrieval environments (bibliographic databank, OPAC, search engine, specialized search system) were analyzed for empirical regularities in search characteristics to determine whether users engage in different behaviors in different Web-based search environments. Descriptive statistics and relative frequency distributions related to term usage, query formulation, and session duration were tabulated. The analysis revealed that there are differences in these characteristics. Users were more likely to engage in extensive searching using the OPAC and specialized search system. Surprisingly, the bibliographic databank search environment resulted in the most parsimonious searching, more similar to a general search engine. Although on the surface Web-based search facilities may appear similar, users do engage in different search behaviors.