Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
ACM SIGIR Forum
Implicit feedback for inferring user preference: a bibliography
ACM SIGIR Forum
Understanding user goals in web search
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluating implicit measures to improve web search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Click data as implicit relevance feedback in web search
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Evaluating the accuracy of implicit feedback from clicks and query reformulations in Web search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
What are you looking for?: an eye-tracking study of information usage in web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Meeting of the MINDS: an information retrieval research agenda
ACM SIGIR Forum
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Some(what) grand challenges for information retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum
Bypass rates: reducing query abandonment using negative inferences
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
How does clickthrough data reflect retrieval quality?
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
People searching for people: analysis of a people search engine log
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Recent developments in information retrieval
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Answering math queries with search engines
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Queries without clicks: evaluating retrieval effectiveness based on user feedback
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Leaving so soon?: understanding and predicting web search abandonment rationales
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Evaluating bad query abandonment in an iterative SMS-based FAQ retrieval system
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval
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The lack of user activity on search results was until recently perceived as a sign of user dissatisfaction from retrieval performance, often, referring to such inactivity as a failed search (negative search abandonment). However, recent studies suggest that some search tasks can be achieved in the contents of the results displayed without the need to click through them (positive search abandonment); thus they emphasize the need to discriminate between successful and failed searches without follow-up clicks. In this paper, we study users’ inactivity on search results in relation to their pursued search goals and investigate the impact of displayed results on user clicking decisions. Our study examines two types of post-query user inactivity: pre-determined and post-determined depending on whether the user started searching with a preset intention to look for answers only within the result snippets and did not intend to click through the results, or the user inactivity was decided after the user had reviewed the list of retrieved documents. Our findings indicate that 27% of web searches in our sample are conducted with a pre-determined intention to look for answers in the results’ list and 75% of them can be satisfied in the contents of the displayed results. Moreover, in nearly half the queries that did not yield result visits, the desired information is found in the result snippets.