Searching the Web for conflicting topics: Page and user factors

作者:

Highlights:

• We studied how students navigate and bookmark Web pages in a Google’s results list.

• Students navigate the Web pages in the order suggested by the Google’s results list.

• Students bookmark Web pages for further study based on topic relevance, and to some extent on web trustworthiness.

• Students’ background knowledge is related to bookmarking trustworthy Web pages in regular Google’s results list.

摘要

•We studied how students navigate and bookmark Web pages in a Google’s results list.•Students navigate the Web pages in the order suggested by the Google’s results list.•Students bookmark Web pages for further study based on topic relevance, and to some extent on web trustworthiness.•Students’ background knowledge is related to bookmarking trustworthy Web pages in regular Google’s results list.

论文关键词:Web search,Google-trust heuristic,Top-link heuristic,Background knowledge

论文评审过程:Available online 31 May 2013.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.04.034