TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of multimedia searching on altavista
AU - Jansen, Bernard J.
AU - Spink, Amanda
AU - Pedersen, Jan
PY - 2003/11/7
Y1 - 2003/11/7
N2 - Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate relevant online information. As such, it is important that we understand how searchers utilize these Web information systems. This paper presents research that examines characteristics of multimedia Web searching on Alta Vista. More specifically, the research questions driving this study are: (1) What are the characteristics of multimedia searching on Alta Vista? and (2) How does this multimedia searching compare to Web searching in general? The results of our research show that multimedia searching is complex relative to general Web searching and that searching specific multimedia collections does not necessarily reduce the searching complexity. We discuss the implications of the findings for the development of online multimedia retrieval systems. COPYRIGHT 2003 ACM.
AB - Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate relevant online information. As such, it is important that we understand how searchers utilize these Web information systems. This paper presents research that examines characteristics of multimedia Web searching on Alta Vista. More specifically, the research questions driving this study are: (1) What are the characteristics of multimedia searching on Alta Vista? and (2) How does this multimedia searching compare to Web searching in general? The results of our research show that multimedia searching is complex relative to general Web searching and that searching specific multimedia collections does not necessarily reduce the searching complexity. We discuss the implications of the findings for the development of online multimedia retrieval systems. COPYRIGHT 2003 ACM.
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U2 - 10.1145/973264.973294
DO - 10.1145/973264.973294
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883245164
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2003
SP - 186
EP - 192
BT - Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2003
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 5th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2003
Y2 - 7 November 2003
ER -