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A taxonomy of web search

2002; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 36; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/792550.792552

1558-0229

Andrei Broder,

Advanced Database Systems and Queries

Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information, the so-called "information need". But the need behind a web search is often not informational -- it might be navigational (give me the url of the site I want to reach) or transactional (show me sites where I can perform a certain transaction, e.g. shop, download a file, or find a map). We explore this taxonomy of web searches and discuss how global search engines evolved to deal with web-specific needs.