Emerging trends in the WWW user population
Communications of the ACM
Information retrieval on the web
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Reducing human interactions in Web directory searches
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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World Wide Web (WWW) is a huge repository of interlinked hypertext documents known as web pages, spread all over the world on thousands of web servers. User looking to get the required information from WWW uses Search engine interface where they provide their search queries. In response, Search engines use their database to search the relevant documents and produce the result after ranking on the basis of relevance. It generally happens that the entire results produced by search engines may not be relevant to the user. When the users do not get the desired information, they modify the search query again and again till they get the desired information or get tired. The situation becomes more cumbersome when the results produced by the search tools are outdated especially when a bad URL is reported. Owing to the problems faced by users, a survey was being conducted to carry out some quantitative studies that can supplement in better understanding of the user's behavior/requirement while using search engine and consequently helping to improve its working.