DocumentCode
1720740
Title
Exploring web search behavior of Arab internet users
Author
Tawileh, Wissam
Author_Institution
Bus. Inf., Dresden Univ. of Technol., Dresden, Germany
fYear
2011
Firstpage
313
Lastpage
318
Abstract
An important factor in performance evaluation of web search engines is the search behavior of users working with these special information retrieval applications. To explore this behavior of Arab internet users, the top searches executed on Google from seventeen Arab countries in the year 2010 were collected and analyzed. Less than the half of search queries were in Arabic letters and 78% of them consisted of one simple term. Other characteristics like search term uniqueness, language distribution and search goals are discussed in this paper.
Keywords
Internet; information retrieval; performance evaluation; search engines; Arab Internet users; Web search behavior; Web search engines; information retrieval applications; language distribution; performance evaluation; search goals; search term uniqueness; Engines; Google; Internet; Navigation; Search engines; Web search; Arab web users; Arabic language; Search Engines; Search querie; Terms taxonomy; Users behavior;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Abu Dhabi
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0311-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2011.5893840
Filename
5893840
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