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International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 1
Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 05-April 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2108-8
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Amanda Spink, Minsoo Park, Bernard J. Jansen, Jan Pedersen, "Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista," Information Technology: Coding and Computing, International Conference on, vol. 1, pp. 309, International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 1, 2004.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286471,
author = {Amanda Spink and Minsoo Park and Bernard J. Jansen and Jan Pedersen},
title = {Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista},
journal ={Information Technology: Coding and Computing, International Conference on},
volume = {1},
year = {2004},
isbn = {0-7695-2108-8},
pages = {309},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286471},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Amanda Spink, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Minsoo Park, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Bernard J. Jansen, The Pennsylvania State University
Jan Pedersen, Overture Web Search
A user's single session with a Web search engine may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics. Most Web search sessions consist of two queries of two words. We present findings from a study of two-query search sessions on the Alta Vista Web search engine to examine the degree of multitasking search by typical web searchers. A sample of two-query length search sessions were filtered from Alta Vista transaction logs from 2003. Findings include: (1) 81% of two-query sessions were multitasking searches, and (2) there are a broad variety of search topics in multitasking search sessions. The implications of our findings for Web design and further research are discussed.
Citation:
Amanda Spink, Minsoo Park, Bernard J. Jansen, Jan Pedersen, "Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista," itcc, vol. 1, pp.309, International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'04) Volume 1, 2004
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