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      Characterizing web search queries that match very few or no results

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      Altıngövde, İ. Ş.
      Blanco, R.
      Cambazoğlu, B. B.
      Özcan, Rıfat
      Sarıgil, Erdem
      Ulusoy, Özgür
      Date
      2012-11
      Source Title
      CIKM '12 Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
      Publisher
      ACM
      Pages
      2000 - 2004
      Language
      English
      Type
      Conference Paper
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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 difficulty
      Search 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
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/28070
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      https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398560
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