Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
An intelligent personal spider (agent) for dynamic Internet/intranet searching
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: intranets and intranetworking
A smart itsy bitsy spider for the web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
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
A personal agent for Chinese financial news on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Vox populi: the public searching of the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
IEEE Internet Computing
Automatic generation of English/Chinese thesaurus based on a parallel corpus in laws
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Tracing a Large-Scale Peer to Peer System: An Hour in the Life of Gnutella
CCGRID '02 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Automatic construction of English/Chinese parallel corpora
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
P2P '01 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
File sharing activities over BT Networks: pirated movies
Computers in Entertainment (CIE) - Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in Entertainment
Searching the peer-to-peer networks: the community and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
Web searching in Chinese: A study of a search engine in Hong Kong
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Introduction to the special issue on non-english web retrieval
Information Retrieval
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been drawing significant attention in the area of information management and sharing recently. Unlike the World Wide Web (WWW), every peer in a P2P network is both client and server. It hosts information for sharing and submits queries to search for information from all of the other peers at the same time. There are a large number of studies related to the information behavior of WWW search engines in the US and Europe. Several issues have been investigated in these studies including number of unique and repeat queries, length of queries, terms being used in queries, successive searching, multitasking searching, multiple searching sessions, changes of topics, multimedia searching, etc. The number of similar studies in P2P networks is significantly less. We have previously studied the information behavior of Gnutella P2P network based on data collected in 2002. In this paper, we present changes in Gnutella queries, based on the previously collected data and new data collected in 2003. Similar metrics to those used by Spink, Wolfram, Jansen, and Saracevic and in our previous study are used. We found that the number of non-English queries has increased. The number of repeat queries in P2P has decreased but is still more than that for WWW search engines. The length of queries has been increased by about 40%. The topics of interest have shifted from entertainment and sexuality to computers and entertainment. In general, the information behavior of P2P users has been changing as the P2P technology becomes more mature and the P2P users become more familiar with the technology. As the P2P technology begins to be adopted in e-Business, we foresee that there will be more changes in the future.