Archive for December, 2005

The influence of task and gender on search and evaluation behaviour using Google.

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

This is Sci7’s review of an article by Lori Lorigo, Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, Thorsten Joachims, Laura Granka, and Geri Gay to be published in the Journal “Information Processing and Management”, these comments and observations are made on a corrected proof “Article in Press”. The authors are from Cornell and Stanford Universities, and the research […]

Frequency of occurrence of numbers in the World Wide Web

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

In July of 2005 S.N. Dorogovtseva, J.F.F. Mendesa and J.G. Oliveira published the results of an experiment in which they put every number from 0 to 100 000 into Google, noted the number of results obtained. The paper states this research was (amazingly to Sci7) partially supported by grant money. Citation: Physica A 360 (2006) […]

Multitasking during Web search sessions

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

This is Sci7 Ltd’s review of an article by Amanda Spink, Minsoo Park, Bernard J. Jansen and Jan Pedersen published in volume 42 of the journal “Information Processing and Management” (pages 264–275) with an expected publication date of early 2006.
Data from Altavista
The research discussed is based on analysis of users of the Altavista search […]

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