Failure analysis in query construction: data and analysis from a large sample of Web queries
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
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
An analysis of web searching by European AlltheWeb.com users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Analysis of the query logs of a web site search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
How are we searching the world wide web?: a comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Modeling successful performance in Web searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Web browsing behavior recording system
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part IV
Boxing clever: how searchers use and adapt to a one-box library search
Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration
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This paper argues that metrics can be generated from search transactional web logs that can help evaluate search engine effectiveness. Search logs from the BBC website were analysed and metrics extracted. Two search metrics — the time lapse between searches and the number of searches in a session — were developed to see whether they could measure search success or satisfaction. In all, 4 million search statements by 900,000 users were evaluated. The BBC search engine possessed a number of functional attributes which sought to improve retrieval and these were subjected to the two metrics to help determine how successful they were in practice. There was some evidence to support the proposition that the search outcome metrics did indeed indicate the effectiveness of engine functionality. The authors argue that this result is significant in that the identification of search outcome metrics will pave the way for assessing the effectiveness of site specific search engines and a greater understanding of the effectiveness of search engine functionality.