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
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
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
To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
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
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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Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails beyond those pages to fulfill information needs. We use the term waypoints to describe pages visited by searchers between the trail origin (the landing page) and the trail destination. The role that waypoints play in search interaction is poorly understood yet can be vital in determining search success. In this poster we analyze log data to determine the arrangement and function of waypoints, and study how these are affected by variations in information goals. Our findings have implications for understanding search behavior and for the design of interactive search support based on waypoints.