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.
%0 Journal Article
%1 broder2002taxonomy
%A Broder, Andrei
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2002
%I ACM
%J SIGIR Forum
%K implicit-feedback ir search social-search taxonomy web-search
%P 3--10
%R 10.1145/792550.792552
%T A taxonomy of web search
%U http://doi.acm.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.
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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.},
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issn = {0163-5840},
issue = {2},
journal = {SIGIR Forum},
keywords = {implicit-feedback ir search social-search taxonomy web-search},
month = {September},
numpages = {8},
pages = {3--10},
publisher = {ACM},
timestamp = {2011-07-25T16:50:27.000+0200},
title = {A taxonomy of web search},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/792550.792552},
volume = 36,
year = 2002
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