Characterizing web search queries that match very few or no results

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2012-12-19

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Altıngövde, İsmail Sengör
Cambazoglu, Berkant Barla
Ozcan, Rifat
Sarigil, Erdem
Ulusoy, Özgür

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Despite the continuous efforts to improve the web search quality, a non-negligible fraction of user queries end up with very few or even no matching results in leading web search engines. In this work, we provide a detailed characterization of such queries based on an analysis of a real-life query log. Our experimental setup allows us to characterize the queries with few/no results and compare the mechanisms employed by the major search engines in handling them.

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Information systems, Information retrieval

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46397

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398560

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İ. S. Altıngövde, B. B. Cambazoglu, R. Ozcan, E. Sarigil, and Ö. Ulusoy, “Characterizing web search queries that match very few or no results,” 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/46397.