Bro: a system for detecting network intruders in real-time
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Query Expansion by Mining User Logs
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Modeling, measurement and performance of world wide web transactions
Modeling, measurement and performance of world wide web transactions
Hourly analysis of a very large topically categorized web query log
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Multitasking Web Search on Vivisimo.com
ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II - Volume 02
Automatic identification of user goals in Web search
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Context-sensitive information retrieval using implicit feedback
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Analysis of the query logs of a web site search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Characterizing typical and atypical user sessions in clickstreams
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Query selection for improved Greek web searches
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
Understanding online social network usage from a network perspective
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Exploring relevance for clicks
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Impact of search results on user queries
Proceedings of the eleventh international workshop on Web information and data management
Study on the Click Context of Web Search Users for Reliability Analysis
AIRS '09 Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium on Information Retrieval Technology
Understanding the impact of the access technology: the case of web search services
TMA'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Traffic monitoring and analysis
Real time search on the web: Queries, topics, and economic value
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Network performance engineering
Intelligent Social Media Indexing and Sharing Using an Adaptive Indexing Search Engine
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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Search engines are a vital part of the Web and thus the Internet infrastructure. Therefore understanding the behavior of users searching the Web gives insights into trends, and enables enhancements of future search capabilities. Possible data sources for studying Web search behavior are either server-side logs or client-side logs. Unfortunately, current server-side logs are hard to obtain as they are considered proprietary by the search engine operators. Therefore we in this paper present a methodology for extracting client-side logs from the traffic exchanged between a large user group and the Internet. The added benefit of our methodology is that we do not only extract the search terms, the query sequences, and search results of each individual user but also the full clickstream, i.e., the result pages users view and the subsequently visited hyperlinked pages. We propose a finite-state Markov model that captures the user web searching and browsing behavior and allows us to deduce users' prevalent search patterns. To our knowledge, this is the first such detailed client-side analysis of clickstreams.