The research conducts a performance comparison between standard search interfaces available in modern search engines with a customized search interface that allows the user to change the way the information is presented on the screen. The tested hypothesis is that customized search interface results in a decrease in total search time and increase (or the same amount) of successful searches. Customizable options included font, background, help, tool tips, highlights, preview text and Boolean operators. Based on the performed study customized interfaces allowed users to increase the speed of obtaining correct search results by 10.2%. The benefit comes with a cost of time that users spend to configure the interface. Further research is recomme...
Users of traditional web search engines commonly find it difficult to evaluate the results of their ...
With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a traditional search...
Due to the enormous amount of information on the Internet today, search engines have become an indis...
The research conducts a performance comparison between standard search interfaces available in moder...
This paper describes a research study done to detect differences in queries constructed in the tradi...
The Internet has become a powerful tool for information search and ecommerce. Millions of people use...
Search result organisation and presentation is an important component of a Web search system, it can...
This aim of this thesis is to measure the effect of the user interface in real searches on the Inter...
Search interfaces are often built without a full understanding of how users search and conduct resea...
Many web sites and applications include a search feature. Often they provide an extremely simple sea...
The organisation, content and presentation of doc-ument surrogates has a substantial impact on the e...
In this research work, the impact of user’s behavior on search engine results is discussed. It aims ...
Mostly with growth of the information sector, in particular the World wide web and the mobile Intern...
This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google se...
Personalization of internet searcher is a subject concentrated by different web search tools, and is...
Users of traditional web search engines commonly find it difficult to evaluate the results of their ...
With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a traditional search...
Due to the enormous amount of information on the Internet today, search engines have become an indis...
The research conducts a performance comparison between standard search interfaces available in moder...
This paper describes a research study done to detect differences in queries constructed in the tradi...
The Internet has become a powerful tool for information search and ecommerce. Millions of people use...
Search result organisation and presentation is an important component of a Web search system, it can...
This aim of this thesis is to measure the effect of the user interface in real searches on the Inter...
Search interfaces are often built without a full understanding of how users search and conduct resea...
Many web sites and applications include a search feature. Often they provide an extremely simple sea...
The organisation, content and presentation of doc-ument surrogates has a substantial impact on the e...
In this research work, the impact of user’s behavior on search engine results is discussed. It aims ...
Mostly with growth of the information sector, in particular the World wide web and the mobile Intern...
This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google se...
Personalization of internet searcher is a subject concentrated by different web search tools, and is...
Users of traditional web search engines commonly find it difficult to evaluate the results of their ...
With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a traditional search...
Due to the enormous amount of information on the Internet today, search engines have become an indis...