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Monday, 10th May 2010

New Full Text Research Report on Real-Time Search by Professor Jim Jansen, Gerry Campbell, & Matthew Gregg

Professor Jim Jansen at Penn St. University (PSU) recently presented a new report that focuse on real-time search.

From a Summary:

...finding relevant content through these channels can be difficult, and real-time sites are not indexed in the same way as traditional search engines because the search results are continually updating as new content is posted, rather than remaining on one static page.

Given these challenges, Jim Jansen, associate professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State, sought to identify the characteristics of users who are looking for real-time content in a recent study involving more than 1 million queries collected over a 190-day period.

Jansen found that many users of real-time search engines are doing so from secondary applications rather than from the platform’s website, that queries tend to repeat over multiple days and that the searches tend to focus on technology, entertainment and politics – rather than the pornographic or sexual queries that are popular topics for traditional search engines.

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Some 1 million searches performed over 90 days were examined in the study. About 30 percent of the queries were unique, which is very low compared to traditional search engines, where as many as 60 percent of queries are unique.

“Real time search is a compelling new area of Web interaction, with potential as a new channel for information gathering, advertising, and other uses,” Jansen said. “As people become more accustomed to using real time content, real time search will become still more important. Therefore, understanding how people locate information in this context is critical.”

Jansen collaborated with Gerry Campbell and Matthew Gregg of Collecta, a real-time search engine that pulls results from blogs, microblogs, news feeds, and photo-sharing services. Collecta provided the data analyzed in the study.

Title: Real Time Search User Behavior
by: Bernard Jansen, Penn St. Univ.
Gerry Campbell, CEO, Collecta
Matthew Gregg, Colleca

Access Full Text (6 pages; PDF)

The full text of Dr. Jansen's paper which was presented at the 2010 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in mid-April.

Source: PSU Live
Hat Tip: P.W.
Source: Penn St. University, Jim Jansen,

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