Some Observations on User Search Behaviour
Yuye Zhang, Alistair Moffat · International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing · 2006
We explore some issues that arise in the way that users interact with a web search engine, as evidenced by the records of their instruction provided by query and clickthrough log data. Our observations are derived from approximatly fifteen million user queries recorded by the search.msn.com search service in May 2006.