This article provides an overview of recent research conducted from 1997 to 2003 that
explored how people search the Web. The article reports selected findings from many …

The World Wide Web has revolutionized the way people access information, and has
opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, general and scientific …

ABSTRACT THISARTICLE EXAMINES the public searching of the Web and provides an
overview of recent research exploring what we know about how people search the Web. The …

Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information,
the so-called" information need". But the need behind a web search is often not …

From the Publisher: Web browsers of all levels can follow seven steps to finding information
on the World Wide Web and the Internet thanks to Web Search Strategies. Learn to locate …

Three Web search engines, namely, Alta Vista, Excite, and Lycos, were compared and
evaluated in terms of their search capabilities (eg, Boolean logic, truncation, field search …

Enormous expanses of the Internet are unreachable with standard web search engines. This
book provides the key to finding these hidden resources by identifying how to uncover and …

In this paper we review studies of the growth of the Internet and technologies that are useful
for information search and retrieval on the Web. We present data on the Internet from several …

ACM: Digital Library: Communications of the ACM ACM Digital Library Communications of the
ACM Volume 51, Number 5 (2008), Pages 32-40 Web searching in a multilingual world …

In less than a decade, Internet search engines have completely changed how people gather
information. No longer must we run to a library to look up something; rather we can pull up …