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Jansen, B.J., Spink, A., Bateman, J., Sarcevic, T., "Real life information retrieval: a study of user queries on the web", SIGIR Forum, ACM Press, 32, 1, Spring 1998, pp. 5-17. Google
6 ;;Quote: study of user searches at www.excite.com
10 ;;Quote: 6% of Excite users used AND or "..."; 1% used parentheses
12 ;;Quote: two-thirds of Excite users used only one query; a fifth modified it once
12 ;;Quote: more than half of Excite users only viewed first results page; a fifth viewed two pages of ten results per page
14 ;;Quote: a quarter of the 63 top subject terms were sexual; 10% of the 63 top subject terms were places (e.g., state, american); 8% were economic (e.g., employment, jobs)
14+;;Quote: 16% of the 63 top subject terms were modifiers (e.g., free, new, big)
15 ;;Quote: average query on Excite contained 2.3 terms; a third were one term only; much shorter than normal IR queries
15 ;;Quote: 5% of Excite queries used 'More Like This'; traditional IR searching uses relevance feedback more
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