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The influence of caption features on clickthrough patterns in web search
2007
Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '07
Web search engines present lists of captions, comprising title, snippet, and URL, to help users decide which search results to visit. Understanding the influence of features of these captions on Web search behavior may help validate algorithms and guidelines for their improved generation. In this paper we develop a methodology to use clickthrough logs from a commercial search engine to study user behavior when interacting with search result captions. The findings of our study suggest that
doi:10.1145/1277741.1277767
dblp:conf/sigir/ClarkeADW07
fatcat:b7vxir62szaepm4budrlzf7gvm