Finding information on the World Wide Web: the retrieval effectiveness of search engines
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
First 20 precision among World Wide Web search services (search engines)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Using terminological feedback for web search refinement: a log-based study
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
How much of it is real? Analysis of paid placement in Web search engine results
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The freshness of web search engine databases
Journal of Information Science
Overlap Among Major Web Search Engines
ITNG '06 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations
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 effectiveness of web search engines for retrieving relevant ecommerce links
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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 searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The comparative effectiveness of sponsored and nonsponsored links for Web e-commerce queries
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Are people biased in their use of search engines?
Communications of the ACM - Alternate reality gaming
Eye tracking and online search: Lessons learned and challenges ahead
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A three-year study on the freshness of web search engine databases
Journal of Information Science
Standard parameters for searching behaviour in search engines and their empirical evaluation
Journal of Information Science
Search engine user behaviour: How can users be guided to quality content?
Information Services and Use - ICSTI 2007 and 2008
Information Sciences: an International Journal
The good, the bad, and the random: an eye-tracking study of ad quality in web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Web search solved?: all result rankings the same?
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
The influence of commercial intent of search results on their perceived relevance
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Optimizing search engines results using linear programming
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Deriving query intents from web search engine queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Query Recommendation for Improving Search Engine Results
International Journal of Information Retrieval Research
Ordinary search engine users carrying out complex search tasks
Journal of Information Science
The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts
MIS Quarterly
Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Designing search engine retrieval effectiveness tests with RAT
Information Services and Use - APE 2013 --The Funding of Publishing
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This paper investigates the composition of search engine results pages. We define what elements the most popular web search engines use on their results pages (e.g., organic results, advertisements, shortcuts) and to which degree they are used for popular vs. rare queries. Therefore, we send 500 queries of both types to the major search engines Google, Yahoo, Live.com and Ask. We count how often the different elements are used by the individual engines. In total, our study is based on 42,758 elements. Findings include that search engines use quite different approaches to results pages composition and therefore, the user gets to see quite different results sets depending on the search engine and search query used. Organic results still play the major role in the results pages, but different shortcuts are of some importance, too. Regarding the frequency of certain host within the results sets, we find that all search engines show Wikipedia results quite often, while other hosts shown depend on the search engine used. Both Google and Yahoo prefer results from their own offerings (such as YouTube or Yahoo Answers). Since we used the .com interfaces of the search engines, results may not be valid for other country-specific interfaces.