[WEB4LIB] AP article on new web searching studies

[K.G. Schneider]

> --Average search is 2 word per query, 2 queries per search session, with
> only the first page of results viewed.
> Quote:
> "We were surprised that people weren't doing more complex searches," Spink
> said. "If you put a couple of words into the Web, you're going to get
> hundreds of thousands of results. I think people aren't trained very well
> to use the search engines."
> 
> [Editorial comment: is this the behavior we're trying to encourage with
> federated search tools?]

Ok, I'll bite. What behavior? How are federated search tools encouraging
this behavior? Do we meet the users where they are or try to "train" them?

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com