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Characterizing web search queries that match very few or no results

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Ismail Sengor Altingovde,

Roi Blanco,

Berkant Barla Cambazoglu,

Rifat Ozcan,

Erdem Sarigil,

Özgür UlusoyAuthors Info & Claims

CIKM '12: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

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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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DOI:10.1145/2396761

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