ACM SIGIR Forum
Understanding user goals in web search
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Towards a model of understanding social search
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Exploratory Search
Understanding together: sensemaking in collaborative information seeking
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
What do people ask their social networks, and why?: a survey study of status message q&a behavior
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Liquid query: multi-domain exploratory search on the web
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Do your friends make you smarter?: An analysis of social strategies in online information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills
Social Science Computer Review
Tie strength in question & answer on social network sites
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Talking in circles: selective sharing in google+
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Perceptions of facebook's value as an information source
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Explanatory semantic relatedness and explicit spatialization for exploratory search
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The post that wasn't: exploring self-censorship on facebook
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Collaborative search revisited
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Who wants to know?: question-asking and answering practices among facebook users
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Investigating the appropriateness of social network question asking as a resource for blind users
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Social media question asking workshop
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work companion
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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In status message question asking (SMQA), members of social networking sites make use of status messages to express information needs to friends and contacts. We present findings from a laboratory study that examined 82 participants' SMQA behaviors in the broader context of online information seeking. When given the option of using a search engine and/or a social network, participants leveraged SMQA for 20% of their information needs, most often posing a question to their network in addition to issuing a query. We show the important roles played by the specificity of the information need and the perceived audience of a given network on routing decisions. We then demonstrate that routing decisions have varied effects on participants' satisfaction, information value, and trust of outcomes. In addition to highlighting the complementary advantages and disadvantages of search and SMQA, our findings suggest that search engines can better address a meaningful portion of people's information needs by integrating SMQA capabilities into their systems.