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ECIR 2006: Advances in Information Retrieval pp 289–301Cite as

A Study of Blog Search

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We present an analysis of a large blog search engine query log, exploring a number of angles such as query intent, query topics, and user sessions. Our results show that blog searches have different intents than general web searches, suggesting that the primary targets of blog searchers are tracking references to named entities, and locating blogs by theme. In terms of interest areas, blog searchers are, on average, more engaged in technology, entertainment, and politics than web searchers, with a particular interest in current events. The user behavior observed is similar to that in general web search: short sessions with an interest in the first few results only.

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  1. ISLA, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gilad Mishne & Maarten de Rijke

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  1. Gilad Mishne
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  1. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  2. Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V OHB, London, UK

    Andy MacFarlane

  3. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  4. Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Anastasios Tombros

  5. CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Theodora Tsikrika

  6. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Alexei Yavlinsky

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Mishne, G., de Rijke, M. (2006). A Study of Blog Search. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_26

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