Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
IEEE Internet Computing
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ITCC '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Computers and Communications
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ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
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CCGRID '02 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Study of the relationship between peer-to-peer systems and IP multicasting
IEEE Communications Magazine
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CSTST '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Soft computing as transdisciplinary science and technology
Introduction to the special issue on non-english web retrieval
Information Retrieval
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This paper presents the trends of searching queries by users from peer-to-peer (P2P) networks over an 18-month period from July 2002 to January 2004. Four data sets of search queries collected from Gnutella were studied to describe the searching trends. Major findings include (1) the percentage of duplicate queries ranging from 34% to 68% of total queries; (2) an increase in non-English queries; (3) an approximately half of searching queries specified for video or audio file types; (4) the stop word "the" accounting for one-third of total stop words; (5) the shift of queries from audio to video; and (6) P2P users demanding for timely entertainment and porn materials. Based on the findings, it is worthwhile for P2P developers to consider (1) system design that allows effective searching using multiple languages; and (2) techniques that eliminate stop words for faster searching.