Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern, digital life, providing doorways to the universe of information available online. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 84% of American adult Internet users have used a search engine to seek information online (Fallows 2005: 1). On any given day, more than 60 million American adults send over 200 million information requests to Web search engines, making Web searches second most popular online activity (behind using e-mail) (Rainie 2005).
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Spink, A., Zimmer, M. (2008). Introduction. In: Spink, A., Zimmer, M. (eds) Web Search. Information Science and Knowledge Management, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75829-7_1
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