Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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
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
Where have you been from here? Trials in hypertext systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The effects of topic familiarity on information search behavior
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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
Understanding user goals in web search
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
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
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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
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Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
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Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
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SNIF-ACT: a cognitive model of user navigation on the world wide web
Human-Computer Interaction
Predicting user interests from contextual information
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Models of searching and browsing: languages, studies, and applications
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Beyond hyperlinks: organizing information footprints in search logs to support effective browsing
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Large scale query log analysis of re-finding
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Finding our way on the web: exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction
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User behavior in zero-recall ecommerce queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Evaluating the synergic effect of collaboration in information seeking
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Empirical Study on Rare Query Characteristics
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Evaluating the effectiveness of search task trails
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Human wayfinding in information networks
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Enriching query flow graphs with click information
AIRS'11 Proceedings of the 7th Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Building the trail best traveled: effects of domain knowledge on web search trailblazing
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A semi-supervised approach to modeling web search satisfaction
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Spatial context in collaborative information seeking
Journal of Information Science
Task tours: helping users tackle complex search tasks
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Predicting web search success with fine-grained interaction data
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Intent-Based browse activity segmentation
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Toward self-correcting search engines: using underperforming queries to improve search
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Introducing search behavior into browsing based models of page's importance
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Search result presentation: supporting post-search navigation by integration of taxonomy data
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Extraction and integration of web data by end-users
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Personalization of web-search using short-term browsing context
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Personalized models of search satisfaction
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
Towards simulation-based similarity of end user browsing processes
ICWE'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Engineering
Lessons from the journey: a query log analysis of within-session learning
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Modeling dwell time to predict click-level satisfaction
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Struggling or exploring?: disambiguating long search sessions
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
The last click: why users give up information network navigation
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
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Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result ranking, where the presence of a page on a trail increases its query relevance. Follow-ing a search trail requires user effort, yet little is known about the benefit that users obtain from this activity versus, say, sticking with the clicked search result or jumping directly to the destination page at the end of the trail. In this paper, we present a log-based study estimating the user value of trail following. We compare the relevance, topic coverage, topic diversity, novelty, and utility of full trails over that provided by sub-trails, trail origins (landing pages), and trail destinations (pages where trails end). Our findings demonstrate significant value to users in following trails, especially for certain query types. The findings have implications for the design of search systems, including trail recommendation systems that display trails on search result pages.