Experiences retrieving information in the world wide web

Author

Cacheda, Fidel ; Viña, Ángel

Author_Institution

Dept. de Tecnoloxias da Inf. e das Comunicacions, Univ. de A Coruna, Spain

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

79

Abstract

In this paper using the information obtained from the daily working of a Web directory, we attempt to expand the knowledge about the behavior of the users in order to improve and adapt the Internet search engines to their users. We have analysed more than 320,000 requests of the transaction log of a Spanish Web directory, focusing our attention, firstly, in the searches in order to confirm the main differences between Internet and traditional Information Retrieval systems. Furthermore, we have developed an exhaustive statistical analysis of searches, categories visited and documents viewed to achieve a mathematical pattern of behaviour for each one, and what it is more important, to establish a relationship between the variations in the behaviour of each one

Keywords

Internet; information resources; information retrieval; search engines; statistical analysis; Internet search engines; Spanish Web directory; Web directory; exhaustive statistical analysis; searches; transaction log; world wide web; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Internet telephony; Search engines; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Taxonomy; Web pages; Web search; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2001. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1177-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2001.935357

Filename

935357