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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%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.
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timestamp = {2017-11-15T17:02:25.000+0100},
title = {{A Taxonomy of Web Search}},
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