The availability of online information sources allows today's scientists to perform powerful, well-targeted searches, yet often the full potential of such searc

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Web search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition an

This book brings together results from the Web search studies we conducted from 1997 through 2004. The aim of our studies has been twofold: to examine how the p

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