A Day In The Life Of BBCi Search
A Day In The Life Of BBCi Search by Martin Belam
This article examines the usage of the search service on the BBC's web site on one day in December 2002, and is based on the hand-classification of a sample of 15,000 search requests made on that day. The analysis covers the number of words people used to search, and the level of incorrect spellings within search terms. It also looks at how much the focus of the search terms was on the UK. Another area examined is the use of advanced search techniques, like adding modifiers to search queries, and the number of search that are made specifically for URLs. This article has been widely linked to on the web, and has been used as part of academic studies into internet usage.
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