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This e-book brings jointly effects from the net seek experiences we carried out from 1997 via 2004. the purpose of our experiences has been twofold: to check how the general public at huge searches the internet and to spotlight tendencies in public net looking. The eight-year interval from 1997 to 2004 observed the beginnings and adulthood of public net looking. advertisement net se's have come and long past, or persevered, during the fall of the dot.com businesses. We observed the increase and, every now and then, the death of numerous excessive profile, publicly on hand internet se's. The research of the internet seek is an exhilarating and significant region of interdisciplinary examine. Our publication offers a invaluable perception into the expansion and improvement of human interplay with net se's. during this ebook, our concentration is at the human element of the interplay among person and net seek engine. we don't examine the net se's themselves or their regularly altering interfaces, algorithms and contours. We concentrate on exploring the cognitive and person points of public net looking within the mixture. We use a number of quantitative and qualitative tools in the total technique referred to as transaction log analysis.

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4. RESEARCH METHODS Web researchers have used varied methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative approaches, depending upon the research questions addressed (Hsieh-Yee, 2001). , Spink, 2002). Hsieh-Yee (2001) and Bar-Ilan (2004) also provide an overview of the research designs, and data collection and analysis methods used in Web search studies. Human Information Behaviour 5. 21 WEB SEARCH STUDIES This section discusses the current state of Web search studies within the following categories: • Web search behavior, including cognitive abilities, variables, and attitudes that effect Web search behavior • Single Web site search studies • Information foraging studies • Children’s Web search behavior • Web search training and learning • Web search evaluation Some studies may fall into multiple categories.

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