%0 Generic %1 citeulike:1856555 %A Rose, D. %A Levinson, D. %D 2004 %K analysis, goals, log, query, search, web %T Understanding user goals in web search %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rose04understanding.html %X Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describe a framework for understanding the underlying goals of user searches, and our experience in using the framework to manually classify queries from a web search engine. Our analysis suggests that so-called "navigational" searches are less prevalent than generally believed, while a previously unexplored "resourceseeking...

@misc{citeulike:1856555, abstract = {Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describe a framework for understanding the underlying goals of user searches, and our experience in using the framework to manually classify queries from a web search engine. Our analysis suggests that so-called \"navigational\" searches are less prevalent than generally believed, while a previously unexplored \"resourceseeking...}, added-at = {2008-06-17T16:01:02.000+0200}, author = {Rose, D. and Levinson, D.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2377e68b1d08c4c97273104b56f997265/pprett}, citeulike-article-id = {1856555}, interhash = {684bf3f0c2e82239d3b2f932aa9a5ef4}, intrahash = {377e68b1d08c4c97273104b56f997265}, keywords = {analysis, goals, log, query, search, web}, posted-at = {2007-11-02 15:32:02}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2008-06-17T16:01:50.000+0200}, title = {Understanding user goals in web search}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rose04understanding.html}, year = 2004 }