Comments on: www2003 day 1 http://www.hackdiary.com/2003/05/21/www2003-day-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=www2003-day-1 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: redscouser http://www.hackdiary.com/2003/05/21/www2003-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-104 redscouser Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:17:38 +0000 http://www.hackdiary.com/?p=35#comment-104 Is Matt Biddulph, the gentleman from UK about 24? Is Matt Biddulph, the gentleman from UK about 24?

]]> By: Ronny Lempel http://www.hackdiary.com/2003/05/21/www2003-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Ronny Lempel Sat, 24 May 2003 15:26:05 +0000 http://www.hackdiary.com/?p=35#comment-103 Actually, in "Predictive Caching and Prefetching of Search Results in Web Search Engines", it was NOT claimed that "97.7% of queries just requested the first page of results". That percentage was the number of users that requested results in batches of 10 results per page, as most Web users do by default. Those 10 results could have very well been the results ranking in places 11-20. Actually, the percentage of page views that are accounted for by the top pages is about 63.5%. By considering the almost 12% of page views for results 11-20, it can be estimated that about one of every five users requests more than one page of search results, and so about 80% of users view just the first page. BTW, the affiliation of both authors at the time of writing the paper was Technion, Israel (not IBM Research). Actually, in “Predictive Caching and Prefetching of Search Results in Web Search Engines”, it was NOT claimed that “97.7% of queries just requested the first page of results”. That percentage was the number of users that requested results in batches of 10 results per page, as most Web users do by default. Those 10 results could have very well been the results ranking in places 11-20. Actually, the percentage of page views that are accounted for by the top pages is about 63.5%. By considering the almost 12% of page views for results 11-20, it can be estimated that about one of every five users requests more than one page of search results, and so about 80% of users view just the first page.

BTW, the affiliation of both authors at the time of writing the paper was Technion, Israel (not IBM Research).

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