Interfacing Google Search Engine to Capture User Web Search Behavior

10.7903/ijecs.1111

Fadhilah Mat Yamin；T. Ramayah

Search Engine ； Search Interface ； Search Log Transaction

International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies

4卷1期（2013 / 06 / 01）

47 - 61

英文

The behaviour of the searcher when using the search engine especially during the query formulation is crucial. Search engines capture users' activities in the search log, which is stored at the search engine server. Due to the difficulty of obtaining this search log, this paper proposed and develops an interface framework to interface a Google search engine. This interface will capture users' queries before redirect them to Google. The analysis of the search log will show that users are utilizing different types of queries. These queries are then classified as breadth and depth search query.

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