Searching the Web: a survey of EXCITE users
Amanda H. Spink, Judy Bateman, Bernard J. Jim Jansen · Internet Research · 1999
Web search services are now a major source of information for a growing number of people. We need to know more about how users search Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of their information retrieval. This paper reports results from a major study exploring users’ information searching behavior on the EXCITE Web search engine. The study is the first to investigate Web users’ successive searching behavior as they conduct related searches