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A taxonomy of web search

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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.

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      cover image ACM SIGIR Forum
      ACM SIGIR Forum  Volume 36, Issue 2
      Fall 2002
      99 pages
      ISSN:0163-5840
      DOI:10.1145/792550
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