Heads and tails: studies of web search with common and rare queries

  • Authors:
  • Doug Downey;Susan Dumais;Eric Horvitz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A large fraction of queries submitted to Web search enginesoccur very infrequently. We describe search log studiesaimed at elucidating behaviors associated with rare andcommon queries. We present several analyses and discussresearch directions.