A study and comparison of multimedia Web searching: 1997-2006

Tjondronegoro, D., Spink, A., & Jansen, B. J. (2009)。 A study and comparison of multimedia Web searching: 1997-2006. 。 Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(9), 1756-1768.
Introduction
    在網路搜尋引擎上尋找多媒體資源是重要的使用者活動，迄今為止，尚未出現強大的技術可以有效處理成長快速的多媒體資料。儘管有過去的研究成果，網路多媒體搜索仍然是個問題：搜尋的準確度、精密度、快速處理和如何充分抽取媒體的特徵等等問題仍未完全解決。
Related Studies

Research Aims
   大部分的研究著重於搜尋特徵與影音搜尋行為的不同，包括：
    Session length: In terms of the actual time spent, and the number of queries per session
    Number of result pages viewed and the lowest ranking.
    Searchers’ demographics: In terms of the location and Web browsers used.
    Query length: The number of terms per query.
    Frequent multimedia terms: In terms of most occurring and clicked-through.
    Categories of frequent multimedia terms.
    Use of advanced query-formulation strategies such as Boolean and natural language.

Methods
Data Collection
Data Analysis

Results
Multimedia Session-Level Analysis
├Multimedia search duration.
├Search result clicks
Dogpile User Demographics
Query-Level Analysis
Top-25 Terms: Click-Through Analysis
Concepts (or Topics) of the Most Followed-Up Queries
Use of Advanced Web Search Features

Discussion