Tuesday, September 18, 2012

WWW Citation Timeline (2002)

Citation Timeline (2002):

Andrei Broder. 2002. A taxonomy of web search. SIGIR Forum 36, 2 (September 2002), 3-10.

The author of this paper discusses the information retrieval (IR) in the sense of how users search for information over the web. From an IR-HCI point of view, the author discusses that as user tasks plays a major role in retrieving the information on the web, the HCI should be involved in the classic IR model (figure 2). They used the following three taxonomies for web search tasks needs: 

(a) navigational, 
(b) informational, 
and (c) transactional. 

Then they conducted a survey on search engine (Altavista) users. Altavista was famous and popular when they conducted that study.

Although, their work was similar to [ref], they didn't actually extend it nor use it in their work. Another fact about this paper, is that it is a very statistical paper in nature, and surprisingly it was cited over than 300 times! I think most citations were on IR field giving the fact that they employed task taxonomies on the IR field.

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