Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACM SIGIR Forum
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Understanding the relationship of information need specificity to search query length
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
"I know what you did last summer": query logs and user privacy
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Beyond the session timeout: automatic hierarchical segmentation of search topics in query logs
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
How children search the internet with keyword interfaces
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Large scale query log analysis of re-finding
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Beyond DCG: user behavior as a predictor of a successful search
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
The demographics of web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query log analysis in the context of information retrieval for children
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An analysis of queries intended to search information for children
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Sentiment in short strength detection informal text
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Who uses web search for what: and how
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Supporting children's web search in school environments
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
EmSe: initial evaluation of a child-friendly medical search system
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Older people's social sharing practices in YouTube through an ethnographical lens
BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers
From republicans to teenagers --- group membership and search (GRUMPS)
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Vertical selection in the information domain of children
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Specifics of information retrieval for young users: A survey
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Inferring the demographics of search users: social data meets search queries
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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The Internet has become an important part of the daily life of children as a source of information and leisure activities. Nonetheless, given that most of the content available on the web is aimed at the general public, children are constantly exposed to inappropriate content, either because the language goes beyond their reading skills, their attention span differs from grown-ups or simple because the content is not targeted at children as is the case of ads and adult content. In this work we employed a large query log sample from a commercial web search engine to identify the struggles and search behavior of children of the age of 6 to young adults of the age of 18. Concretely we hypothesized that the large and complex volume of information to which children are exposed leads to ill-defined searches and to disorientation during the search process. For this purpose, we quantified their search difficulties based on query metrics (e.g. fraction of queries posed in natural language), session metrics (e.g. fraction of abandoned sessions) and click activity (e.g. fraction of ad clicks). We also used the search logs to retrace stages of child development. Concretely we looked for changes in the user interests (e.g. distribution of topics searched), language development (e.g. readability of the content accessed) and cognitive development (e.g. sentiment expressed in the queries) among children and adults. We observed that these metrics clearly demonstrate an increased level of confusion and unsuccessful search sessions among children. We also found a clear relation between the reading level of the clicked pages and the demographics characteristics of the users such as age and average educational attainment of the zone in which the user is located.