Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal properties of these problems share similar structures and, often, similar solutions. Moreover, internal search (e.g., memory search) shows similar characteristics to external search (e.g., spatial foraging), including sh...

Link information, especially anchor text, is known to be very useful for effective ranking of web pages, particularly in response to navigational queries. We investigated whether enterprise webs contain sufficient internal link information to adequately answer queries derived from the enterprise’s site map or, alternatively, whether adding link evidence from the external Web can boost search ef...

This paper reports the results of an extensive user study that examined information seekers’ use of their memory and externally recorded search histories in searching for and using information in the legal domain. The ultimate goal of the research is to design search-historybased user interface tools to support information seeking. The results reported here focus on the management of complex in...