The Effect of Context on User Search Behavior
Sun Jingyu · Journal of Intelligence · 2012
The user search behavior is in the specific Search context.Although personalized search,social search can use part of context information,sometimes,the search results are really hard for the users to accept because of the ineffective use of other context information.Using questionnaire survey,this article explores the effect of the context information to the user's search behavior.First,survey topics are designed based on the User Context,Query Context and Page Context respectively.Second,one-month Internet user feedback results on sina.com and other four websites are collected.Finally,the effect of the three types of context information on the user search behavior is analyzed.The result shows:concerning the effect on the user search behavior,the Query Context has the highest weight,and then comes the User Context and the Page Context.The survey can offer some help for the further effective use of context information.