Title :
Exploring web search behavior of Arab internet users
Author_Institution :
Bus. Inf., Dresden Univ. of Technol., Dresden, Germany
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;
Conference_Titel :
Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Abu Dhabi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0311-9
DOI :
10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2011.5893840
