Web Search: Public Searching of the Web

by Amanda Spink and Bernard J. Jansen

Book Overview

This book brings together results from the Web search studies we conducted from 1997 through 2004. The aim of our studies has been twofold: to examine how the public at large searches the Web and to highlight trends in public Web searching. The eight-year period from 1997 to 2004 saw the beginnings and maturity of public Web searching. Commercial Web search engines have come and gone, or endured, through the fall of the dot.com companies. We saw the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048166292
• ISBN13: 9789048166299
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"