Interaction in information retrieval: selection and effectiveness of search terms
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Children's Internet searching on complex problems: performance and process analyses
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Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Empirical studies of end-user information searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Judgement of information quality and cognitive authority in the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The effects of topic familiarity on information search behavior
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Query length in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
A day in the life of web searching: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
On the web at home: information seeking and web searching in the home environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
How users assess web pages for information seeking
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysis of the query logs of a web site search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The influence of task and gender on search and evaluation behavior using Google
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
In search of query patterns: a case study of a university OPAC
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Modeling successful performance in Web searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Twenty-five years of end-user searching, Part 1: Research findings
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Investigating the querying and browsing behavior of advanced search engine users
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Does domain knowledge matter: Mapping users' expertise to their information interactions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
User rankings of search engine results
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Eye tracking and online search: Lessons learned and challenges ahead
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Task Effects on Interactive Search: The Query Factor
Focused Access to XML Documents
Presentation bias is significant in determining user preference for search results—A user study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Describing and predicting information-seeking behavior on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Patterns of query reformulation during Web searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The linguistic structure of English web-search queries
EMNLP '08 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
The role of subjective factors in the information search process
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Facing and bridging gaps in Web searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments
Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments
The demographics of web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
ECIR'05 Proceedings of the 27th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval Research
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This experiment studied the impact of various task phrasings on the search process. Eighty-eight searchers performed four web search tasks prescribed by the researchers. Each task was linked to an existing target web page, containing a piece of text that served as the basis for the task. A matching phrasing was a task whose wording matched the text of the target page. A nonmatching phrasing was synonymous with the matching phrasing, but had no match with the target page. Searchers received tasks for both types in English and in Hebrew. The search process was logged. The findings confirm that task phrasing shapes the search process and outcome, and also user satisfaction. Each search stage—retrieval of the target page, visiting the target page, and finding the target answer—was associated with different phenomena; for example, target page retrieval was negatively affected by persistence in search patterns (e.g., use of phrases), user-originated keywords, shorter queries, and omitting key keywords from the queries. Searchers were easily driven away from the top-ranked target pages by lower-ranked pages with title tags matching the queries. Some searchers created consistently longer queries than other searchers, regardless of the task length. Several consistent behavior patterns that characterized the Hebrew language were uncovered, including the use of keyword modifications (replacing infinitive forms with nouns), omitting prefixes and articles, and preferences for the common language. The success self-assessment also depended on whether the wording of the answer matched the task phrasing. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.