Characteristics and user interaction with web search engines : a study on engineering students

• Main Author: Seow, Hai Sim.
• Other Authors: School of Applied Science
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42535
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In common with library catalogues, users of Web search engines are concerned with results, hardly consider the mechanisms, and rarely make full use of the capabilities. This exploratory study attempts to provide an insight about the interaction between users and the search engines on the Web, mainly...