Characterizing Queries in Different Search Tasks

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of queries of varied search tasks driven by different user intents. For this, the study collected empirical and descriptive evidence of twenty-nine subjects´ information searching process on the Web. Several indicators have been employed to determine different characteristics of queries. The results indicate that there were statistical differences in query iteration, identical query, failed query, click-through query rate among different search tasks with different search intent. The results also indicate different search tasks result in different query interval lengths.