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New Technology of Library and Information Service  2014, Vol. 30 Issue (12): 10-17    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2014.12.02
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Analysis for the Search Behavior of Web Users
Chen Yong1, Li Honglian1, Lv Xueqiang2
1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100101, China;
2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Internet Culture and Digital Dissemination Research, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100101, China
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Abstract  

[Objective] To count and analyze for the data of Web users behavior, provide the basis for further improving the performance of search engines. [Methods] Analyze the characteristics of users' query and the user's query results that the search engine returns. To introduce the concept of entropy, quantify the behavior of interaction process of users and search engines. [Results] In all user records, no spaces queries accounted for 93.66%, 83.59% of the users use a longer query, user's certainty click reaches 64.26%, and 71.26% of the users view the first three return results. [Limitations] The size of the user's query may affect the result of the analysis in a certain extent. [Conclusions] The results show that the user's click on the reliability is closely related to the certainty, search engine has some defects on positioning of the long query words.

Key wordsUser behavior      Log analysis      Search engine      Entropy     
Received: 26 June 2014      Published: 20 January 2015
:  TP391  

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Chen Yong, Li Honglian, Lv Xueqiang. Analysis for the Search Behavior of Web Users. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2014, 30(12): 10-17.

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