—In spite of numerous search engines available on the web, no single engine is capable of performing “better” under all circumstances. This being the case, metasearch engines...
Our focus this year was to investigate methods for increasing query length in interactive information searching in the Web context, and to see if these methods led to changes in t...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, J. Jeng, Amymari...
Individuals often use search engines to return to web pages they have previously visited. This behaviour, called refinding, accounts for about 38% of all queries. While researcher...
The amount of information available on the Web has increased rapidly, reaching levels that few would ever have imagined possible. We live in what could be called the "informa...
Web sites are designed for graphical mode of interaction. Sighted users can "cut to the chase" and quickly identify relevant information in Web pages. On the contrary, i...