Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spink, Amanda (Editor), Jansen, Bernhard J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Information Science and Knowledge Management, 6
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computers.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.; The Computing Profession.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book brings together results from the Web search studies we conducted from 1997 through 2004. The aim of our studies has been twofold: to examine how the public at large searches the Web and to highlight trends in public Web searching. The eight-year period from 1997 to 2004 saw the beginnings...

Table of Contents:

• Technological, Social and Organizational Context
• Human Information Behavior and Human Computer Interaction Context
• Research Design
• Search Terms
• Search Queries
• Search Sessions
• E-Commerce Web Searching
• Medical and Health Web Searching
• Sexually-Related Web Searching
• Multimedia Searching
• Key Findings, Trends, Further Research and Conclusions.