Bernard J. Jansen

AReview of Web Searching Studies and aFramework for Future Research (2008)

This paper reports findings from a study investigating the effect of integrating sponsored and nonsponsored search engine links into a single web listing. The premise underlying this research is that...

aspect provides aunique opportunity to review the current state of research in the field, identify common trends,developamethodologicalframework,anddefine terminology for future Web searching...

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Searching for people on web search engine (2008)

The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0022-0418.htm

A Spink, Bernard J. Jansen

The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at

Journal of Web Engineering © Rinton Press THE EFFECT OF SPECIALIZED MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS ON WEB SEARCHING (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Jan Pedersen

Multimedia Web searching is a significant information activity for many people. Major Web search engines are critical resources in people’s efforts to locate relevant online multimedia information....

ABSTRACT Purpose of this paper Using the Web to Look for Work: Implications for Online Job Seeking and Recruiting (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Karen J. Jansen, Amanda Spink

The Web is now a significant component of the recruitment and job search process. However, we know very little about how it is used in this process and its impact on the recruiting or job seeking...

General Terms (2008)

Information Systems (2008)

Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate relevant online...

Ned Stoll, Dave Beeksma, Mark Black, Ron Taylor, Choe Seok Yon, Aaron J. Williams, ...

Architecture Organizations miss a tremendous opportunity for gain by regarding the Y2K experience solely as a costly necessity they would just as soon forget. Preparing information systems for the...

OPERATORS NOT NEEDED? THE IMPACT OF QUERY STRUCTURE ON WEB SEARCHING RESULTS TRACK: Human Computer Interaction (2008)

AReview of Web Searching Studies and aFramework for Future Research (2008)

Most Web searchers use extremely simple queries. There is an assumption that the correct use of query operators will improve the quality of results. We test his assumption by examining the impact of...

Web searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine (2008)

aspect provides aunique opportunity to review the current state of research in the field, identify common trends,developamethodologicalframework,anddefine terminology for future Web searching...

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Sherry Koshman

Metasearch engines are an intuitive method for improving the performance of Web search by increasing coverage, returning large numbers of results with a focus on relevance, and presenting alternative...

Sponsored Search: An Overview of the Concept, History, and Technology (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Tracy Mullen

The success of sponsored search has radically affected how people interact with the information, websites, and services on the Web. Sponsored search provides needed revenue streams to Web search...

WWW 2007 / Poster Paper Topic: Search Brand Awareness and the Evaluation of Search Results (2008)

In-depth Examination of Agents Interacting with Search Engines (2008)

We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This research is motivated...

Bernard J. Jansen, Tracy Mullen, Amanda Spink

The Web has become a worldwide repository of information, which individuals, companies, and organizations utilize to solve or address various information problems. Many of these Web users utilize...

WWW 2007 / Poster Paper Topic: Search Determining the User Intent of Web Search Engine Queries (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth

Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the user intent underlying...

Experimentation, Human Factors (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Brian Smith, Danielle L. Booth

Investigating whether one can view Web searching as a learning process, we examined the searching characteristics of 41 participants engaged in 246 searching tasks. We classified the searching tasks...

See Other Publications (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Maj Anthony Pfiff

Terms are the basic building block of information retrieval (IR) queries. Queries are the primary means of the translating the user’s information needs in a way that the IR system can understand....

Queensland (2008)

Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen

Abstract Federated content collections are important for providing access to multiple content repositories. Our paper provides preliminary results from a large-scale study of user access to federated...

See Other Publications (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Major Anthony Pfaff

Translating an information need into a form understandable by an information retrieval system typically requires the use of terms and queries. Terms form the queries for information retrieval...

Automated Gathering of Web Information: An In-depth Examination of Agents Interacting with Search Engines (2008)

Bernard J. Jansen, Tracy Mullen, Amanda Spink, Jan Pedersen

this paper, we refer to spiders, softbots, meta-search applications and other automated information gathering processes all as agents

relevance feedback by Excite users (2007)

Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, H. Cenk Ozmultu

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Study of Searching by Web Users. Submitted to the ASIS Bulletin. See Other Publications (2007)

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink

This article details the methodology and analysis used in the Excite Research Project, a currently three year and still on-going research project to study the nature of searching on a major Web...

Abstract (2007)

William J. Adams, Bernard J. Jansen, Todd Smith

There have been many reports on the construction of digital libraries. We find three shortcomings in many of these reports. (1) They fail to articulate the organizational need for a digital library....

Abstract (2007)

William J. Adams, Bernard J. Jansen, Todd L. Smith

Cost cutting and personnel restructuring are forcing organizations to make difficult decisions on where to spend money. Among the areas hit hard by budget cuts are education and training. Academic,...

See Other Publications (2007)

Abstract Distributed Digital Library Architecture: The Key to Success for Distance Learning (2007)

Research on Web searching is at an incipient stage. This aspect provides a unique opportunity to review the current state of research in the field, identify common trends, develop a methodological...

William J. Adams, Bernard J. Jansen

Cost cutting and personnel restructuring are forcing organizations to make difficult decisions on where to spend money. One of the areas hit hard by budget cuts is education and training. Academic,...

Go to Publication List (2007)

Bernard J. Jansen, Abby Goodrum, Amanda Spink

The development of digital libraries has led to the integration of textual and multimedia information in many document collections. The World Wide Web provides the necessary connectivity for many...

See Other Publications (2007)

William J. Adams, Bernard J. Jansen, Richard Zoller

Usability is an often neglected component of software design. Usability principles are usually relegated to advanced courses in Human Factors or User Interface design, without consideration for the...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Sexual and pornographic Web searching: Trends analysis (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Amanda Spink, Helen Partridge, Bernard J. Jansen

The level of sexual or pornographic Web searching is a major subject of political debate, particularly in the United States. United States federal prosecutors recently, as of 2006, requested that the...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Web log analysis panel (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Jansen, Bernard J., Bhavnani, Suresh, Murray, Craig, Spink, Amanda, Wolfram, Dietmar

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Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

The Comparative Effectiveness of Sponsored and Non-Sponsored Links for Web Ecommerce Queries (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

The predominant business model for Web search engines is sponsored search, which generates billions in yearly revenue. But are sponsored links providing online consumers with relevant choices for...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? (2007)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Query Modifications Patterns During Web Searching (2007)

Analysis of data from a major metasearch engine reveals that sponsored-link click-through rates appear lower than previously reported. Combining sponsored and nonsponsored links in a single listing,...

Narayan, Bhuva, Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J.

We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 users of Dogpile.com submitted 6 May 2005. We compare query reformulation patterns. We investigate the type of query modifications and query...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

The level of commerce related Web search is a major indicator of the growth of e-commerce. Web queries are a key element in how people purchase services and products via the Web. People create Web...

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

Multitasking during web search sessions (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A user’s single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

Spink, Amanda, Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking infor-13 mation on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda, Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Multitasking during web search sessions (2006)

Spink, Amanda, Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A user’s single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

Formal Definitions of Web Information Search (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Yan, Su, Giles, C. Lee, Jansen, Bernard J.

Research in Web search engines has been criticized for lacking underlying theories and models. Theories adopted from traditional information retrieval research have been found in many ways lacking...

Information Searching Tactics of Web Searchers (2006)

Zhang, Mimi, Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda

This paper examines patterns and features of query reformulation within a Web searching session. We pursued this study in response to the growing interest in the area of interactions during...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking infor- 13 mation on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

Formal Definitions of Web Information Search (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Yan, Su, Giles, C. Lee, Jansen, Bernard J.

Research in Web search engines has been criticized for lacking underlying theories and models. Theories adopted from traditional information retrieval research have been found in many ways lacking...

Information Searching Tactics of Web Searchers (2006)

Zhang, Mimi, Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda

This paper examines patterns and features of query reformulation within a Web searching session. We pursued this study in response to the growing interest in the area of interactions during...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

The Wrapper: An Open Source Application for Logging User - System Interactions during Searching Studies (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Adversarial Information Retrieval Aspects of Sponsored Search (2006)

Conducting user studies and user evaluations of information retrieval systems requires the collection of specialized data, namely user interactions with the system. These interactions occur both on...

An examination of searchers' perceptions of non-sponsored and sponsored links during ecommerce Web searching (2006)

Search engines are commercial entities that require revenue to survive. The most prevalent revenue stream for search engines is sponsored search, where content providers have search engines service...

Bernard J. Jansen, Marc Resnick

In this article, we report results of an investigation into the effect of sponsored links on ecommerce information seeking on the Web. In this research, 56 participants each engaged in six ecommerce...

How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink

This is the author-version of a paper published as:

* To whom all correspondence should be sent. (2006)

Bernard J, Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Chris Blakely, Sherry Koshman

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

Search log analysis: What it is, what's been done, how to do it (2006)

The Effect of Brand Awareness on the Evaluation of Search Engine Results (2006)

The use of data stored in transaction logs of Web search engines, Intranets, and Web sites can provide valuable insight into understanding the information-searching process of online searchers. This...

Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang

In this paper we investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., identifying name that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. Our research is...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

Spink, Amanda H., Park, Minsoo, Jansen, Bernard J., Pedersen, Jan

A users single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking...

A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major web search engines (2006)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Blakely, Chris, Koshman, Sherry

The performance and capabilities of Web search engines is an important and significant area of research. Millions of people world wide use Web search engines very day. This paper reports the results...

How are we searching the world wide web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs (2006)

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics...

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

Finding Nutrition Information on the Web: Coverage vs. Authority (2005)

Doran, Susan G., Ycaza, Samuel De, Eastman, Caroline M., Jansen, Bernard J.

The ability of different types of web sites to provide relevant information in response to queries in the area of nutrition is investigated here. Nutrition related queries from users of the Excite...

Repeat Visits to Vivisimo.com: Implications for Successive Web Searching (2005)

Jansen, Bernard J., Koshman, Sherry, Spink, Amanda

We investigate the occurrence of Web searchers returning the same information course, in this case the Vivisimo Web search engine. We analyze data from a transaction log spanning a roughly 8-day...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

Finding Nutrition Information on the Web: Coverage vs. Authority (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

Doran, Susan G., Ycaza, Samuel De, Eastman, Caroline M., Jansen, Bernard J.

The ability of different types of web sites to provide relevant information in response to queries in the area of nutrition is investigated here. Nutrition related queries from users of the Excite...

Repeat Visits to Vivisimo.com: Implications for Successive Web Searching (2005)

Jansen, Bernard J., Koshman, Sherry, Spink, Amanda

We investigate the occurrence of Web searchers returning the same information course, in this case the Vivisimo Web search engine. We analyze data from a transaction log spanning a roughly 8-day...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

Web Searcher Interactions with Multiple Federate Content Collections (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen

Federated content collections are important for providing access to multiple content repositories. Our paper provides preliminary results from a large-scale study of user access to federated content...

Examining Searcher Perceptions of and Interactions with Sponsored Results (2005)

A temporal comparison of altavista web searching (2005)

In this paper, we report results of an investigation into the effect of sponsored links on ecommerce information seeking on the Web. In this research, 56 participants each engaged in 6 ecommerce Web...

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Jan Pedersen

Major Web search engines, such as AltaVista, are essential tools in the quest to locate online information. This article reports research that used transaction log analysis to examine the...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of and Patterns of Interactions with Automated Searching Assistance (2005)

Bernard J. Jansen, Michael D. Mcneese

We report quantitative and qualitative results of an empirical evaluation to determine whether automated assistance improves searching performance and when searchers desire system intervention in the...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

An analysis of document viewing patterns of Web search engine users (2005)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

An analysis of web searching by European alltheweb.com users (2005)

Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web Mining uses document content, hyperlink structure,...

A study of Web search trends (2004)

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. It is changing the way people conduct the daily business of their lives. As these changes are occurring, we need...

Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen

This article provides an overview of recent research conducted from 1997 to 2003 that explored how people search the Web. The article reports selected findings from many research studies conducted by...

Web Search: Public Searching of the Web (2004)

Spink, Amanda, Jansen, Bernard J.

"Web Search: Public Searching of the Web", co-authored by Drs. Amanda Spink and Bernard J. Jansen, is one of the first manuscripts that address the human - system interaction of Web searching in a...

Assisting the searcher: utilizing software agents for Web search systems (2004)

Bernard J. Jansen, Udo Pooch

Much previous research on improving information retrieval applications has focused on developing entirely new systems with advanced searching features. Unfortunately, most users seldom utilize these...

Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Jan Pedersen

Multimedia Web searching is a significant information activity for many people. Major Web search engines are critical resources in people’s efforts to locate relevant online multimedia information....

Coverage, Relevance, and Ranking: (2003)

The Impact Of, Caroline M. Eastman, Bernard J. Jansen

this article, we investigate these questions and provide a partial answer

The impact of automated assistance on the information retrieval process (2003)

Abstract Seeking and implementing automated assistance during the search process (2003)

Advanced information retrieval systems providing automated assistance offer the opportunity to greatly enhance the effectiveness of the information retrieval process. One issue in designing such...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Searchers seldom make use of the advanced searching features that could improve the quality of the search process because they do not know these features exist, do not understand how to use them, or...

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

Versus European Web Searching Trends (2002)

Amanda Spink, Seda Ozmutlu, Huseyin C. Ozmutlu, Bernard J Jansen

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From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes (2002)

Spink, Amanda H., Jansen, Bernard J., Wolfram, Dietmar, Saracevic, Tefko

The Web has become a worldwide source of information and a mainstream business tool. Are human information needs and searching behaviors evolving along with Web content? As part of a body of research...

Searching the web: the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web: the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web: the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web: the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web: the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web: the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web : the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Searching the web : the public and their queries (2001)

Spink, Amanda H., Wolfram, Dietmar, Jansen, Bernard J., Saracevic, Tefko

In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda H., Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda, Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, amajor Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda H., Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda H., Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda H., Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda H., Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web (2000)

Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda H., Saracevic, Tefko

We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries during a session, number...

An investigation into the use of simple queries on Web IR systems (2000)