SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining web query logs to analyze political issues
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Political hashtag hijacking in the U.S.
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
#Egypt: visualizing Islamist vs. secular tension on Twitter
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Investigating query bursts in a web search engine
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of search engine users during a query burst, compared to before and after this period. The purpose of this study is to get insights about how search engines and content providers should respond to a query burst. We analyze one year of web-search logs, looking at query bursts from two perspectives. First, we adopt the user's perspective describing changes in user's effort and interest while searching. Second, we look at the burst from the general content providers' view, answering the question of under which conditions a content provider should ``ride'' a wave of increased interest to obtain a significant share of clicks.