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Editorial Advisory Board |
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1 New Perspectives on Web Search Engine Research |
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1.1 The Context of Web Search Engine Research |
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2 | (4) |
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1.1.1 The Search Engine Market |
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2 | (1) |
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1.1.2 Challenges to Information Retrieval and the Library and Information Science Research Communities |
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3 | (1) |
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1.1.3 Approaches to Classifying Web Search Engine Research Areas |
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4 | (2) |
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6 | (6) |
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1.2.1 Part 1: Emerging Areas of Web Searching |
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6 | (2) |
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1.2.2 Part 2: Beyond Traditional Search Engine Evaluation |
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8 | (2) |
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1.2.3 Part 3: New Perspectives on Web Searching |
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10 | (2) |
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1.3 Suggestions for Further Research |
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12 | (7) |
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14 | (5) |
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PART 1 EMERGING AREAS OF WEB SEARCHING |
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2 The Many Ways of Searching the Web Together: A Comparison of Social Search Engines |
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20 | (1) |
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2.2 What Is Social Search? |
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21 | (5) |
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2.2.1 Context and History of Social Information Retrieval |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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2.2.3 Defining Social Search |
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23 | (3) |
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2.3 Social Tagging Systems |
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26 | (3) |
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2.3.1 Fundamentals and Motivation for Social Tagging |
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27 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Direct Usage of Social Tagging Systems |
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28 | (1) |
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2.3.3 Indirect Usage of Social Tags as Input for Search Algorithms |
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29 | (1) |
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2.4 Social Question-Answering |
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29 | (5) |
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2.4.1 Fundamentals of Social QA |
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29 | (3) |
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2.4.2 Community-Based Systems |
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32 | (1) |
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2.4.3 Expert-Based Systems |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (1) |
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2.6 Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Services |
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35 | (3) |
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2.7 Personalized Social Search |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (7) |
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41 | (6) |
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3 Local Web Search Examined |
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47 | (32) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (5) |
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50 | (3) |
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3.2.2 Geographic Information Retrieval |
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53 | (1) |
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3.2.3 Search Scenarios and Information Needs |
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53 | (2) |
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3.3 Current Local Search Engines |
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55 | (18) |
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57 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Map-Based Local Web Search |
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58 | (7) |
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65 | (6) |
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3.3.4 Other Local Search Services |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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3.5 Future Research and Evolution of Local Search |
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74 | (5) |
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74 | (5) |
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4 The Computational Analysis of Web Search Statistics in the Intelligent Framework Supporting Decision Making |
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79 | (26) |
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80 | (2) |
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4.2 Web Search Queries Statistics |
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82 | (3) |
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4.3 Scientific Basics of Prognosis and Forecasting Based on Web Search Statistics |
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85 | (2) |
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4.4 Examples of Web Search Statistics Analyses |
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87 | (4) |
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4.5 Issues of Search Queries Computational Processing |
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91 | (2) |
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4.6 Associative Analysis of Search Queries Statistics |
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93 | (1) |
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4.7 WebPerceiver Platform |
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94 | (5) |
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4.8 Practical Implications and Further Development and Research |
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99 | (1) |
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4.9 Summary and Conclusions |
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100 | (5) |
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101 | (4) |
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PART 2 BEYOND TRADITIONAL SEARCH ENGINE EVALUATION |
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5 Evaluating Web Retrieval Effectiveness |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (4) |
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5.2.1 Assembling a Document Collection |
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108 | (1) |
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5.2.2 Creating a Set of Information Needs |
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108 | (1) |
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5.2.3 Identifying the Set of Documents Relevant to the Topics |
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109 | (2) |
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5.3 Traditional Evaluation Measures |
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111 | (3) |
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5.3.1 Precision and Recall |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (1) |
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5.4 Evaluation with User Models |
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114 | (10) |
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5.4.1 Cooper's Expected Search Length |
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114 | (1) |
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5.4.2 Robertson's Interpretation of Average Precision |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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5.4.4 Rank-Biased Precision |
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117 | (1) |
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5.4.5 Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain |
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118 | (3) |
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5.4.6 Expected Reciprocal Rank |
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121 | (1) |
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5.4.7 Expected Browsing Utility |
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122 | (2) |
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124 | (9) |
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5.5.1 Novelty and Diversity |
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124 | (5) |
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129 | (4) |
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5.6 Online Evaluation of Retrieval Systems |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (5) |
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135 | (4) |
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6 Diversity-Aware Search: New Possibilities and Challenges for Web Search |
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139 | (24) |
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140 | (1) |
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6.2 Diversity and Its Notions |
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141 | (5) |
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6.3 Diversity in Web Search |
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146 | (7) |
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6.3.1 Diversity in Result Sets and Ranking |
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147 | (2) |
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6.3.2 Comprehensive Diversity Analysis |
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149 | (2) |
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6.3.3 Evaluation Measures for Result Diversification |
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151 | (2) |
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6.4 Diversity-Aware Search Engine for Medical Web Content: An Example |
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153 | (6) |
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6.4.1 Functionality of the Search Engine |
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153 | (2) |
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6.4.2 System Architecture and Diversity Analysis Strategy |
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155 | (3) |
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6.4.3 Transfer to Other Domains |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (4) |
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160 | (3) |
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7 Personalised Search Engine Evaluation: Methodologies and Metrics |
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163 | (40) |
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7.1 Introduction and Motivation |
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164 | (1) |
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7.2 Search Engine Evaluation Criteria |
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165 | (3) |
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7.2.1 User-Oriented Evaluation |
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167 | (1) |
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7.3 A Search Engine Evaluation Model |
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168 | (7) |
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7.3.1 Weighted Parameters and Summary Score |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (2) |
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7.3.3 Performance Parameters |
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172 | (1) |
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7.3.4 Evaluating Relevance Using a Common List |
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173 | (1) |
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7.3.5 More on Quality Issues |
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174 | (1) |
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7.4 Search Engine Comparison Using the Evaluation Model |
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175 | (2) |
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7.4.1 Data Collection Methodology |
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175 | (1) |
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7.4.2 Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluations |
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175 | (1) |
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7.4.3 An Illustrative Case Study |
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176 | (1) |
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7.5 Performance Measurement Metrics |
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177 | (3) |
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179 | (1) |
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7.6 Histogram Patterns and Classification |
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180 | (3) |
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7.6.1 Daily Duplication Frequency Patterns |
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181 | (2) |
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7.7 Period Duplication Frequency Patterns |
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183 | (3) |
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7.7.1 Daily Rank Change Frequency Patterns |
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183 | (1) |
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7.7.2 Remarks on Patterns |
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183 | (3) |
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7.8 Comparing and Classifying Histogram Patterns |
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186 | (4) |
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7.8.1 Parameters for Histogram Patterns |
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187 | (1) |
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7.8.2 Expected Value as a Single Index |
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187 | (3) |
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7.9 Validation of the Proposed Pattern Classification |
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190 | (3) |
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190 | (3) |
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193 | (1) |
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193 | (10) |
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194 | (9) |
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8 Search Engines and Rank Correlation |
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203 | (24) |
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204 | (1) |
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8.2 Motivations and Concepts |
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205 | (7) |
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212 | (3) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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8.3.3 System Architecture |
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214 | (1) |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (2) |
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8.6 A Framework for Investigating Rank Correlation |
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219 | (2) |
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221 | (6) |
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222 | (5) |
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PART 3 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WEB SEARCHING |
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9 Beyond Search: A Technology Probe Investigation |
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227 | (24) |
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9.1 Typologies of Web Use |
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228 | (5) |
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9.2 Designing Web Interaction Probes |
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233 | (5) |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (2) |
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240 | (6) |
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9.4.1 Confounding Properties of the Experience |
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240 | (2) |
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9.4.2 Grasping the Possibilities of Pebbles |
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242 | (3) |
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9.4.3 Reflections on Cards |
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245 | (1) |
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9.5 Conclusions and Implications for Future Research |
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246 | (5) |
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248 | (3) |
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10 How Search Engine Users Evaluate and Select Web Search Results: The Impact of the Search Engine Interface on Credibility Assessments |
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251 | (30) |
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10.1 Introduction and Overview |
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252 | (2) |
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10.2 The Importance of Information Quality and Credibility on the Web |
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254 | (2) |
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10.2.1 Definitions of Information Quality and Credibility |
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254 | (1) |
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10.2.2 The Heterogeneity of Information Sources on the Web and in Search Engine Lists |
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254 | (2) |
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10.3 Selection of Search Results from SERPs |
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256 | (3) |
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10.3.1 Information Foraging Theory: Search Result Selection Based on Information Scent and Satisficing Strategies |
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256 | (1) |
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10.3.2 Empirical Findings About Laypeople's Search Result Selection Behavior |
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257 | (2) |
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10.4 Credibility Assessments on the Web |
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259 | (3) |
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10.4.1 Prominence-Interpretation Theory: Two Constituent Components for Credibility Assessments |
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259 | (1) |
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10.4.2 Potential Reasons for the Neglect of Credibility of Information Sources on SERPs |
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260 | (2) |
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10.5 Alternative Search Engine Interfaces to Support Credibility Assessments |
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262 | (10) |
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10.5.1 Reducing the Prominence of the Search Results Ranking |
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262 | (3) |
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10.5.2 Increasing the Prominence of Quality-Related Cues on SERPs |
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265 | (4) |
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10.5.3 Automatic Classification of Search Results According to Genre Categories |
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269 | (3) |
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272 | (9) |
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275 | (6) |
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11 What Would Kant Think? Testing Truth Claims in Research Traditions, and Proposing Deeper Meanings for the Concept of "Search" |
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281 | (28) |
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282 | (3) |
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11.2 Truth Claims in Science |
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285 | (3) |
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11.3 Truth Claims in Social Science |
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288 | (2) |
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290 | (2) |
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11.5 Judgmental Truth Claims |
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292 | (2) |
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11.6 Types and Behaviors of Networks |
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294 | (3) |
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11.7 Search Engine Mechanisms |
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297 | (1) |
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11.8 Considering Other Philosophies in the Meanings of Search |
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298 | (1) |
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11.9 The Index as an Aesthetic Marker of Presence |
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298 | (2) |
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11.10 The Psychological Basis of Search |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (2) |
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303 | (6) |
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304 | (5) |
About the Authors |
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Subject Index |
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