Searching the Web: a survey of EXCITE users
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Internet Research
- Vol. 9 (2), 117-128
- https://doi.org/10.1108/10662249910264882
Abstract
Web search services are now a major source of information for a growing number of people. We need to know more about how users search Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of their information retrieval. This paper reports results from a major study exploring users’ information searching behavior on the EXCITE Web search engine. The study is the first to investigate Web users’ successive searching behavior as they conduct related searchesKeywords
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