Characterizing web search queries that match very few or no results
Author
Altıngövde, İ. Ş.
Blanco, R.
Cambazoğlu, B. B.
Özcan, Rıfat
Sarıgil, Erdem
Ulusoy, Özgür
Date
2012-11Source Title
CIKM '12 Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Publisher
ACM
Pages
2000 - 2004
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Despite the continuous efforts to improve the web search quality, a non-negligible fraction of user queries end up with very few or even no matching results in leading web search engines. In this work, we provide a detailed characterization of such queries based on an analysis of a real-life query log. Our experimental setup allows us to characterize the queries with few/no results and compare the mechanisms employed by the major search engines in handling them.
Keywords
Query difficultySearch result quality
Web search engines
Query difficulty
Query logs
Search results
User query
Web search quality
Web search queries
Knowledge management
Online searching
Search engines
Websites
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/11693/28070Published Version (Please cite this version)
https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398560Collections
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