Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Understanding search engines: mathematical modeling and text retrieval
Understanding search engines: mathematical modeling and text retrieval
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
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
Modern Information Retrieval
Analysis of large data logs: an application of Poisson sampling on excite web queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
ACM SIGIR Forum
U.S. versus European web searching trends
ACM SIGIR Forum
Working the Web: An Empirical Model of Web Use
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
A Study of Multitasking Web Search
ITCC '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications
Mining longitudinal web queries: trends and patterns
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Survey of Text Mining
Web searching for sexual information: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista
ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
A day in the life of web searching: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Search engine coverage bias: evidence and possible causes
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A General Classification of (Search) Queries and Terms
ITNG '06 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
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
The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Information Science and Knowledge Management)
Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (Information Science and Knowledge Management)
Web searching, search engines and Information Retrieval
Information Services and Use
Search engine user behaviour: How can users be guided to quality content?
Information Services and Use - ICSTI 2007 and 2008
What users see - Structures in search engine results pages
Information Sciences: an International Journal
The influence of commercial intent of search results on their perceived relevance
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Search intention analysis for user-centered adaptive visualizations
UAHCI'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: design for all and eInclusion - Volume Part I
Deriving query intents from web search engine queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Ordinary search engine users carrying out complex search tasks
Journal of Information Science
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Search engines have become the most important medium for Internet users to find pages on the web. They help customers to decrease their information overload, and enhance the sales of commercial web sites in different ways. For these reasons, the exploration of and changes in (human) online searching behaviour has become a subject of particular importance. This paper will help search engine and web site administrators and developers to monitor online searching behaviour properly and to derive strategies from the information gained. We define standard parameters against which search engines can be measured and compared. These parameters also reflect the online searching behaviour of search engine users. Therefore, an overview of studies conducted in the last few years is given. Statistics used in different papers are compared to extract standard parameters for online searching behaviour. In the next step, search queries from four different search engines covering periods of between 10 and 13 months are compared using these parameters. Using an automatic process, we retrieved around 99% of all search queries from three different search engine live tickers. For the first time, different data sets over a long period are compared. We observe that some patterns stay stable in a number of different search engines, and shed light on patterns that shorter analyses could not adequately examine. Our observations do not support the assumption that web search has become more business driven. For this reason, we introduce the concept of evergreens in search queries. One implication is that search engines should simplify web search interfaces for users since Boolean operators and special search features are rarely used. We also present the evergreen topics in search queries.