Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista

Authors:
Amanda Spink;Minsoo Park;Bernard J. Jansen;Jan Pedersen
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ITCC '04 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 2 - Volume 2
Year:
2004

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Abstract

A user's single session with a Web search enginemay consist of seeking information on single ormultiple topics. Most Web search sessions consist oftwo queries of two words. We present findings from astudy of two-query search sessions on the Alta VistaWeb search engine to examine the degree ofmultitasking search by typical web searchers. Asample of two-query length search sessions werefiltered from Alta Vista transaction logs from 2003.Findings include: (1) 81% of two-query sessionswere multitasking searches, and (2) there are a broadvariety of search topics in multitasking searchsessions. The implications of our findings for Webdesign and further research are discussed.