Travel around a learning support environment: rambling, orienteering or touring?
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Scripted documents: a hypermedia path mechanism
HYPERTEXT '89 Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Orienteering in an information landscape: how information seekers get from here to there
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
Information retrieval from hypertext using dynamically planned guided tours
ECHT '92 Proceedings of the ACM conference on Hypertext
interactions
The order of things: activity-centered information access
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Footprints: history-rich tools for information foraging
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
The Best Trail Algorithm for Assisted Navigation of Web Sites
LA-WEB '03 Proceedings of the First Conference on Latin American Web Congress
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating implicit measures to improve web search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Analysis of topic dynamics in web search
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Collecting community wisdom: integrating social search & social navigation
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Studying the use of popular destinations to enhance web search interaction
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Models of searching and browsing: languages, studies, and applications
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Beyond hyperlinks: organizing information footprints in search logs to support effective browsing
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Comparing Google to ask-a-librarian service for answering factual and topical questions
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
User behavior in zero-recall ecommerce queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Human wayfinding in information networks
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Building the trail best traveled: effects of domain knowledge on web search trailblazing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Language intent models for inferring user browsing behavior
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies
Differences in search engine evaluations between query owners and non-owners
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Characterizing and supporting cross-device search tasks
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Intent-Based browse activity segmentation
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Toward whole-session relevance: exploring intrinsic diversity in web search
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Search result presentation: supporting post-search navigation by integration of taxonomy data
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Extraction and integration of web data by end-users
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Through-the-looking glass: utilizing rich post-search trail statistics for web search
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involving multiple steps. Search trails mined from toolbar logs start with a query and contain pages visited by one user during post-query navigation. Implicit endorsements from many trails can enhance result ranking. Rather than using trails solely to improve ranking, it may also be worth providing trail information directly to users. In this paper, we quantify the benefit that users currently obtain from trail-following and compare different methods for finding the best trail for a given query and each top-ranked result. We compare the relevance, topic coverage, topic diversity, and utility of trails selected using different methods, and break out findings by factors such as query type and origin relevance. Our findings demonstrate value in trails, highlight interesting differences in the performance of trailfinding algorithms, and show we can find best-trails for a query that outperform the trails most users follow. Findings have implications for enhancing Web information seeking using trails.