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Examining Repetition in User Search Behavior

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2007)

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This paper describes analyses of the repeated use of search engines. It is shown that users commonly re-issue queries, either to examine search results deeply or simply to query again, often days or weeks later. Hourly and weekly periodicities in behavior are observed for both queries and clicks. Navigational queries were found to be repeated differently from others.

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  1. Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

    Mark Sanderson

  2. Microsoft Research, Redmond, Redmond, WA, USA

    Susan Dumais

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Giambattista Amati Claudio Carpineto Giovanni Romano

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Sanderson, M., Dumais, S. (2007). Examining Repetition in User Search Behavior. In: Amati, G., Carpineto, C., Romano, G. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_56

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