What type of page is this?: genre as web descriptor

Summary form only given. Many have suggested the use of genres to ameliorate the problem of Web search. A central issue in the implementation of this idea is the choice of genres to be used as Web page descriptors. Several studies have explored user terminology for and recognition of several types of digital documents, e.g., various types of office documents, personal home pages, and pages returned by user Web searches. This article reports on a series of three user studies with the purpose of developing a genre "palette" for use in Web retrieval