Paper Info
Title
Multitasking Web Search on Alta Vista
Abstract
A user's single session with a Web search enginemay consist of seeking information on single ormultiple topics. Most Web search sessions consist oftwo queries of two words. We present findings from astudy of two-query search sessions on the Alta VistaWeb search engine to examine the degree ofmultitasking search by typical web searchers. Asample of two-query length search sessions werefiltered from Alta Vista transaction logs from 2003.Findings include: (1) 81% of two-query sessionswere multitasking searches, and (2) there are a broadvariety of search topics in multitasking searchsessions. The implications of our findings for Webdesign and further research are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286471
ITCC (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
two-query length search session,multitasking web search,alta vistaweb search engine,single ormultiple topic,multitasking searchsessions,web search session,search topic,alta vista transaction log,web search enginemay,two-query sessionswere,two-query search session,information retrieval,web search engine,psychology,web design,search engines,productivity,multitasking
Web search engine,Web search query,World Wide Web,Web page,Information retrieval,Semantic search,Computer science,Search engine optimization,Search analytics,Human multitasking,Web crawler
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2108-8
4
0.80
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amanda Spink11246121.35
Minsoo Park21038.62
Bernard J. Jansen34753394.06
Jan O. Pedersen463011177.07