The World-Wide Web: quagmire or gold mine?
Communications of the ACM
PAT-tree-based keyword extraction for Chinese information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Usage analysis of a digital library
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Improving end-to-end performance of the Web using server volumes and proxy filters
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
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Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results
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Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery
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Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
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Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
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Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
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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
MetaSpider: meta-searching and categorization 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
Subject categorization of query terms for exploring Web users' search interests
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Characteristics of question format web queries: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Design and evaluation of a multi-agent collaborative Web mining system
Decision Support Systems - Web retrieval and mining
A Contextual Term Suggestion Mechanism for Interactive Web Search
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Mining longitudinal web queries: trends and patterns
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Web searching for sexual information: an exploratory study
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
LinkSelector: A Web mining approach to hyperlink selection for Web portals
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
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
Changes in queries in Gnutella peer-to-peer networks
Journal of Information Science
SpidersRUs: automated development of vertical search engines in different domains and languages
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Analysis of the query logs of a web site search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Self organization of a massive document collection
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Query selection for improved Greek web searches
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
Characteristics of character usage in Chinese Web searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Identification of factors predicting clickthrough in Web searching using neural network analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Current research issues and trends in non-English Web searching
Information Retrieval
An analysis of web proxy logs with query distribution pattern approach for search engines
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Character usage in Chinese short message service SMS: a real-world study in Mainland China
International Journal of Mobile Communications
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The number of non-English resources has been increasing rapidly on the Web. Although many studies have been conducted on the query logs in search engines that are primarily English-based (e.g., Excite and AltaVista), only a few of them have studied the information-seeking behavior on the Web in non-English languages. In this article, we report the analysis of the search-query logs of a search engine that focused on Chinese. Three months of search-query logs of Timway, a search engine based in Hong Kong, were collected and analyzed. Metrics on sessions, queries, search topics, and character usage are reported. N-gram analysis also has been applied to perform character-based analysis. Our analysis suggests that some characteristics identified in the search log, such as search topics and the mean number of queries per sessions, are similar to those in English search engines; however, other characteristics, such as the use of operators in query formulation, are significantly different. The analysis also shows that only a very small number of unique Chinese characters are used in search queries. We believe the findings from this study have provided some insights into further research in non-English Web searching. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.