This paper examines the use of Web search engines by faculty and students to support
learning, teaching, and research. We explore the academic tasks supported by search …

Search engines have entered popular culture. They touch people in diverse private and
public settings and thus heighten the importance of such important social matters as …

This article reports results of two user studies of search engine use conducted to evaluate
the United Kingdom's national academic sector digital information services and projects. The …

The Pew Internet & American Life survey in February 2012 included several questions
probing how respondents feel about search engines and other websites collecting …

To investigate the nature of people's understandings for how search engines work, we
collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to" …

This study examines the information-seeking behavior of undergraduate students within a
research context. Student searches were recorded while the participants used Google and a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine strengths and limitations that search
engines (SEs) exhibit when responding to web search queries associated with the grade …

The inspiration for this book emerged from the editors' participation in a panel d-cussion on
Web search engines at an annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. This …

To inform the design of next-generation Web search tools, researchers must better
understand how users find, manage, and refind online information. Synthesizing results from …

Users searching the Web have difficulty using search engines and developing queries.
Searches tend to be simple, and Boolean operators are used infrequently and incorrectly …