Vox populi: The public searching of the web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyPublished 1 January 2001Open access
Dietmar Wolfram, Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Tefko Saračević
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Comparaison de deux etudes faites en 1997 and 1999 sur le mode d'interrogation du Web par 200000 utilisateurs du moteur Excite ainsi que sur les sujets d'Interrogation (loisirs, sante, education...).
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this paper we compare and contrast results from our two previous studies of Excite queries data sets, each containing over 1 million queries submitted by over 200,000 Excite users collected in September 1997 and December 1999. We examine how public Web searching changing during that two-year time period
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