A picture of search

Greg   Pass; Abdur Chowdhury; Cayley  Torgeson

1st International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems

Research Article

A picture of search

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1146847.1146848,
    author={Greg   Pass and  Abdur Chowdhury  and  Cayley  Torgeson},
    title={A picture of search},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={INFOSCALE},
    year={2006},
    month={6},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1145/1146847.1146848}
}

Greg Pass
Abdur Chowdhury
Cayley Torgeson
Year: 2006
A picture of search
INFOSCALE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1146847.1146848

Greg Pass¹, Abdur Chowdhury ¹, Cayley Torgeson²

1: America Online
2: Raybeam

Abstract

We survey many of the measures used to describe and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of large-scale search services. These measures, herein visualized versus verbalized, reveal a domain rich in complexity and scale. We cover six principle facets of search: the query space, users' query sessions, user behavior, operational requirements, the content space, and user demographics. While this paper focuses on measures, the measurements themselves raise questions and suggest avenues of further investigation.

Published: 2006-06-01
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1146847.1146848