%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:577491 %A Broder, Andrei %B Proceedings of the 15th Australasian database conference - Volume 27 %C New York, NY, USA %D 2002 %I ACM %J SIGIR Forum %K www-search %N 2 %P 3--10 %R 10.1145/792550.792552 %T A Taxonomy of Web Search %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/792550.792552 %V 36 %X Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the so-called "information need". But the need behind a web search is often not informational -- it might be navigational (give me the url of the site I want to reach) or transactional (show me sites where I can perform a certain transaction, e.g. shop, download a file, or find a map). We explore this taxonomy of web searches and discuss how global search engines evolved to deal with web-specific needs.

@article{citeulike:577491, abstract = {{Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the so-called "information need". But the need behind a web search is often not informational -- it might be navigational (give me the url of the site I want to reach) or transactional (show me sites where I can perform a certain transaction, e.g. shop, download a file, or find a map). We explore this taxonomy of web searches and discuss how global search engines evolved to deal with web-specific needs.}}, added-at = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Broder, Andrei}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2607e629db102dc56db22e5c9f774c0b8/aho}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Australasian database conference - Volume 27}, citeulike-article-id = {577491}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1012297}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/792550.792552}, doi = {10.1145/792550.792552}, interhash = {1bfc1fd93c01979b73e05ae519a46bce}, intrahash = {607e629db102dc56db22e5c9f774c0b8}, issn = {0163-5840}, journal = {SIGIR Forum}, keywords = {www-search}, location = {Dunedin, New Zealand}, month = sep, number = 2, pages = {3--10}, posted-at = {2016-05-30 23:55:58}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {ADC '04}, timestamp = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100}, title = {{A Taxonomy of Web Search}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/792550.792552}, volume = 36, year = 2002 }