Changes in use and perception of facebook
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
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
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Questions are content: a taxonomy of questions in a microblogging environment
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
#TwitterSearch: a comparison of microblog search and web search
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Effects of community size and contact rate in synchronous social q&a
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tie strength in question & answer on social network sites
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Perceptions of facebook's value as an information source
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Using Social Network Sites (SNS) as an information source has drawn the attention of the researchers for a while now. There have been many works that analyzed the types and topics of questions people ask in these networks and why. Topics like what motivate people to answer such queries, how to integrate the traditional search engines and SNS together are also well investigated. In this paper, we focus on a relevant but novel issue - how SNS search varies in developed and developing regions of the world and why. Analyzing 880 status messages collected from a widely used SNS, we have observed that, unavailability and inadequacy of information on web in developing countries play a significant role to motivate users using SNS for information retrieval. With established statistics of Internet usage, e-Governance, and our experimental data analysis, we have tried to emphasize the differences between social search and traditional web-search and provided insight that one might require to consider while developing any application for SNS based searching.