History Repeats Itself: Repeat Queries in Yahoo’s Logs

Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), Seattle, WA |

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Thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet search engine search box, users have come to depend on search engines both to find and re-find information. However, re-finding behavior has not been significantly addressed. Here we look at re-finding queries issued to the Yahoo! search engine by 114 users over a year.