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History Repeats Itself: Log Analysis of Repeat Queries
Jaime Teevan, Eytan Adar, Rosie Jones, Michael Potts

Thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet search engine search box, users have come to depend on search engines both to find and refind 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.

Poster, SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA.

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