Examining repetition in user search behavior

  • Authors:
  • Mark Sanderson;Susan Dumais

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK;Microsoft Research, Redmond, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper describes analyses of the repeated use of search engines. It is shown that users commonly re-issue queries, either to examine search results deeply or simply to query again, often days or weeks later. Hourly and weekly periodicities in behavior are observed for both queries and clicks. Navigational queries were found to be repeated differently from others.