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What are the real differences of children's and adults' web search

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SIGIR '11: Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2009916.2010076

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We present first results of a logfile analysis on web search engines for children. The aim of this research is to analyse fundamental facts about how children's web search behaviour differs from that of adults. We show differences to previous results, which are often based on small lab experiments. Our large-scale analysis suggests that children search queries are more information-oriented and shorter on average. Children indeed make a lot of spelling errors and often repeat searches and revisit web pages.

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SIGIR '11: Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval

July 2011

1374 pages

ISBN:9781450307574

DOI:10.1145/2009916

General Chairs:
Wei-Ying Ma
Microsoft Research Asia, China
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Jian-Yun Nie
University of Montreal, Canada
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Research, Spain
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Tat-Seng Chua
National University of Singapore
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W. Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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