DG Hendry, EN Efthimiadis - Web search: Multidisciplinary perspectives, 2008 - Springer
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 …
JR Griffiths, P Brophy - 2005 - ideals.illinois.edu
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 …
EN Efthimiadis, DG Hendry - … of the 28th annual international ACM …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
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" …
H Georgas - portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014 - muse.jhu.edu
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 …
SM Colaric - College & Research Libraries, 2003 - crl.acrl.org
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 …