Psychological models of deferred decision making
Journal of Mathematical Psychology
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
End-user searching behavior in information retrieval: a longitudinal study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
A longitudinal study of World Wide Web users' information-searching behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Communications of the ACM
Information seeking and mediated searching. Part 5. User-intermediary interaction
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Social Construction of Meaning: An Alternative Perspective on Information Sharing
Information Systems Research
Characterizing Web Usage Regularities with Information Foraging Agents
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Management Science
On the Depth and Dynamics of Online Search Behavior
Management Science
Stopping Rule Use During Web-Based Search
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Information overload: addressing the productivity paradox in face-to-face electronic meetings
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Exploring the outlands of the MIS discipline
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Users' stopping behaviors and estimates of recall
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Analyzing the emotional outcomes of the online search behavior with search engines
Computers in Human Behavior
Contribution behaviors in distributed environments
MIS Quarterly
Brand positioning strategy using search engine marketing
MIS Quarterly
Timing of Adaptive Web Personalization and Its Effects on Online Consumer Behavior
Information Systems Research
Usercentric Operational Decision Making in Distributed Information Retrieval
Information Systems Research
User models as revealed in web-based research services
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The importance of individual characteristics on consideration sets for online auction buyers
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Concept comparison engines: A new frontier of search
Decision Support Systems
The ambivalent ontology of digital artifacts
MIS Quarterly
An empirical analysis of user evaluation factors on attitude and intention of using a search engine
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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Online search has become a significant activity in the daily lives of individuals throughout much of the world. The almost instantaneous availability of billions of web pages has caused a revolution in the way people seek information. Despite the increasing importance of online search behavior in decision making and problem solving, very little is known about why people stop searching for information online. In this paper, we review the literature concerning online search and cognitive stopping rules, and then describe specific types of information search tasks. Based on this theoretical development, we generated hypotheses and conducted an experiment with 115 participants each performing three search tasks on the web. Our findings show that people utilize a number of stopping rules to terminate search, and that the stopping rule used depends on the type of task performed. Implications for online information search theory and practice are discussed.