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Peer reviewedCarroll, James B. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1999
Expert users of the Internet were studied to identify the strategies they used to locate specific information. Participants' searching actions were recorded, including counts of each movement from Web page to Web page and within Web pages. Three patterns appeared: keyword searching, hierarchical searching, and meandering. Implications for the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Internet
