Analysis of Query Repetition in Large-scale Chinese Search Log
Zhicheng Dou · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2008
This paper analyzes query repetition in a large-scale Chinese search engine log.It provides detailed statistics about query repetition and individual query repetition.Key conclusions include:query frequency,document click frequency and user frequency follow Zipf distributions. Queries are with high repetition ratios.Query repetition ratio increases when users' search histories become rich.The users who search more frequently have higher query repetition ratios.These conclusions are useful for improving search performance of Chinese search engines.