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The perfect search engine is not enough: A study of orienteering behavior in directed search (2004)
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Jaime Teevan
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Christine Alvarado
,
Mark S. Ackerman
,
David R. Karger
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Teevan04theperfect,
author = {Jaime Teevan and Christine Alvarado and Mark S. Ackerman and David R. Karger},
title = {The perfect search engine is not enough: A study of orienteering behavior in directed search},
booktitle = {},
year = {2004},
pages = {415--422},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier studies of directed search focused on keyword search, most of the search behavior we observed did not involve keyword search. Instead of jumping directly to their
